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Prin(e Edward islahd, 

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International Steamship Company. 


Bostop, Portland, ^astport apd St. J0I79 (ipe. 


THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS OF THIS COMPANY’S STEAMERS: 

M ARCH 10T H TO MAY 5TH, 1890. ...... 

Leave Boston at 8.00 A. M., and Portland at 5.00 P. M. Mondays 
and Thursdays for Eastport and St. John, with usual connections. 
Returning, leave St. John at 7.25 A. M. and Eastport at 12.30 P. M., 
Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

M AY 5TH TO N OVEMBER 3D, 1890. . 

Leave Boston at 8.30 A. M. and Portland at 5.00 P. M. Mondays, 
Wednesdays and Fridays for Eastport and St. John, with usual con¬ 
nections. Returning, leave St. John at 7.25 A. M., and Eastport 
12.30 P. M. same days. 

(SEP^On Wednesday trip Westbound Steamers do not call at Portland between June 4th and Oct. 1st.) 

N OVEMBER 3D, 1890, TO MA RCH 10TH, 1891. 

Leave Boston and Portland Mondays and Thursdays usual hour. 
Returning, leave St. John and Eastport same days, usual hours. 


NOVA SCOTIA DIRECT LINE 

MAY TO NOVEMBER, 1890. . 

Leave Boston (Commercial Wharf), 8.30 A. M., Mondays and Thurs¬ 
days for Digby and Annapolis direct. Returning, leave Annapolis 
and Digby Tuesdays and Fridays P. M. 
















QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 


Q. What days do the International steamers leave Boston for St. John ? 

A. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and on the trip they touch at Portland 
and Eastport. 

Q. What is the hour of leaving ? 

A. 8.30 A. M. 

Q. If it is not convenient to take the boat in the morning at Boston, can I take 
the train to Portland and connect there with the steamer ? 

A. Yes ; the steamers leave Portland at 5 P. M. or after arrival of the 12.30 and 
1 P. M. trains of the Boston and Maine R. R. 

Q. Is there a transfer at Portland ? 

A. No ; passengers change cars at Scarboro Junction, about three miles out of 
Portland, and these cars run to the head of the steamers’ dock in Portland. 

Q. What are the fares from Boston to the various points reached by the Inter¬ 
national ? 

A. See tariff of rates on other pages of this book. 

Q. What is the fare for children ? 

A. Children under five years of age free ; between five and twelve half fare. 

Q. If I take rail to Portland and connect with the steamer there, what is the 
difference between the cost of this ticket and one by steamer all the way ? 

A. $1.50 more. 

Q. What are the prices of state-rooms ? 

A. $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00 and $4.00. 

Q. What is the difference between the rooms, causing the variation in prices? 

A. A $3.00 room is a large one with a sofa, located in the forward part of the 
steamer; the $4.00 room is a large one with a sofa, located in the after part of 
steamer. 

Q. I presume the $2.00 rooms are desirable? 

A. Yes-; the greater portion of the rooms are $2.00 and are of good size. 

Q. What is a $1.00 room? 

A. A single inside state-room, having but one berth. 

Q. What is the $1.50 room? 

A. A single outside state-room, having but one berth. 

Q. Do passage tickets include meals ? 

A. They do not. 

Q. What is the rate for meals ? 

A. Dinner 75 cents, breakfast and supper 50 cents. 

Q. What time do the steamers arrive at Eastport ? 

A. The time of arrival varies according to tides, etc., usually from 7.00 to 8.30 
the morning following departure from Boston. 

Q. What are the connections at Eastport ? 

A. Steamer on the St. Croix River to the summer resort of St. Andrews, also to 
Robbinston and Calais, Maine ; steam ferry to the summer resort of Campobello ; 
steam ferry to Lubec ; stage from Lubec to Machias ; also stages from Eastport to 
Pembroke, Perry and Calais ; steamer to Grand Manan. 

Q. What time are the steamers due at St. John ? 

A. Usually from 1.30 to 3.30 P. M. the day following departure from Boston. 












































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DISTANCES AND TIME. 


Boston to Portland . 

Portland to Eastport. .. 

Eastport to St. [ohn. 

Eastport to Calais . 

Eastport to St. Andrfavs.. 

St. John to Halifax (Rail) 

St. John to Halifax (Water and Rail) 


MILES. 

I 10 


TIME. 

7 A hours. 
14 


DISTANCES AID TIME 


St. John to Srmmerside, P. E. I 
St. John to Charlottetown, 


DISTANCES AND TIME. 


St. John to Fredericton (By V 
St. John to 1 ) 

St. John to A 
St. John to Y 


St. John to S'i Rait of Canso 


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25A hours 

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Boston 

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Annapolis . 




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26J 

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80 

10 

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Boston 

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Halifax_ 




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45 

33 

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338 

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Q. Ingoing to points on the Intercolonial Railway, what connections do the Inter¬ 
national steamers make at St. John ? 

A. If passengers desire to reach the northern part of New Brunswick, Dalhousie, 
Campbellton, New Castle, the Miramichi District, or any point north of Moncton, 
they will take the 4.35 P. M. train. The night train for Halifax and all points 
south of Moncton, also for New Glasgow, Pictou, and Eastern Extension points to 
Mulgrave, leaves St. John at 10.15. 

Q. On what days and what hour do the steamers leave St. John for Digby and 
Annapolis, Nova Scotia? 

A. Every week-day, except Wednesdays, at 7.30 A. M., St. John time. 

Q. On what days does the Union Line steamers leave St. John for Fredericton ? 

A. Steamers leave (Indiantown) St. John daily, Sunday excepted, 9.00 A. M., 

local time, for Fredericton and Gibson ; connecting there with New Brunswick for 
Woodstock, Aroostook, Grand Falls, and Edmondstown. 

Q. On what days does the steamer return ? 

A. Steamers leave Fredericton for St. John (Indiantown) 8.00 A. M., local 
time, daily, Sundays excepted ; due at Indiantown 3.00 P. M. 

Q. Returning, on what days do the steamers leave St. John for Boston ? 

A. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 7.25 A. M.; arriving in Boston, 

usually, from 11.00 A. M. to 2 P. M. the following days. 

Q. Do the steamers touch at Portland each trip coming west ? 

A. Yes, with the exception of the Wednesday trip, during June, July, August 
and September, when the steamer calls at Eastport only, and runs direct to Boston, 
arriving there about 7.00 A. M. the following morning. 


ANNAPOLIS DIRECT LINE. 

Q. On what days and what hour does the International steamer leave Boston for 
Nova Scotia direct ? 

A. On Mondays and Thursdays at 8.30 A. M. 

Q. What time is this steamer due at Digby ? 

A. About 10 A. M. the following mornings. 

Q. At what time is she due at Annapolis ? 

A. At about 11.30 A. M. 

Q. What are the connections at Digby ? 

A. Passengers for Yarmouth, Meteghan, Weymouth and other points on the 
Western Counties Railway may leave Digby early the same afternoon and reach 
Yarmouth (67 miles) in time for supper. Stages leave Digby for Bear River. 

Q. What are the connections at Annapolis ? 

A. The Windsor & Annapolis Railway, 130 miles to Halifax, passing through 
the important places of the Annapolis Valley, reaching Halifax in time for supper. 
Also the Nova Scotia Central Railway runs from Middleton (28 miles out of 
Annapolis on the Windsor & Annapolis Railway) to Lunenburg, Bridgewater, New 
Germany, and Liverpool by stage from Bridgewater. There is also a direct stage 
line from Annapolis to Caledonia and Liverpool." 

Q. On what days does the direct Nova Scotia steamer return ? 

A. Leaves Annapolis after arrival of the through train of the Windsor & Annapo¬ 
lis Railway Mondays and ThtH^&ays. Leaves Digby the same afternoons. 

Q. At what time is this steamer due in Boston ? 

A. The following afternoons from 5 to 7 o’clock. 






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15 cts., or can be purchased at offices o 
the Company at 10 cts. each. 


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Eastern Maine, New Brunswick, 
Nova Scotia, 


Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton. 

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PUBLISHED BY THE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL " '' 

STEAMSHIP COMPANY. . , 


Tickets and General Information may be obtained at the following Agencies of the Company : 


LOCAL 

E. A. Waldron, General Agent, Commercial Wharf, 
Boston. 

J. W. Richardson, Agent, 207 Washington Street, 
Boston. 

C. P. Waldron, Agent, 40 Exchange St., Portland 
H. P. C. Hersey, Agent, R. R. Wharf, Portland. 
W. H. Kilby, Agent, Company’s Pier, Eastport. 
S. D Leavitt, Agent, opposite Custom’s Building, 
Eastport. 

R. A. Carder, Agent, 


AGENTS. 

J• N Thompson, Agent, Frontier Steamboat Co , 
Calais. ’ 

C. L. Deming, Agent, cor. Point and Union Streets, 
Calais. 

C. E. Laechler, Agent, Reed’s Point Wharf, St 
John. 

H. Chubb, Agent, Prince William Street, St Tohn 
£ E< k Philps > A K en L Prince William St., St. Tohn. 
H. B. Short, Agent, Government Pier, Digby. 
cadia Pier, Annapolis. 


OUTSIDE 

W. H. Church, Agent, 1 Weybosset Street, Provi¬ 
dence, R. I. 

G. C. Lyon, Agent, cor. Moody and Crescent Sts., 
Waltham, Mass, 

G. Y. Lancaster, Agent, 434 Main Street, Wor¬ 
cester, Mass. 


AGENTS. 

°. F Rawson, Agent, 391 Main Street, Worcester. 
Mass. * 

F. L Gunn, Agent, 241 Main Street, Springfield. 

Mass. * 

W. W- Jacobs, Agent, 293 Main St., Hartford, Conn. 
VV. I. Moore, 100 Main Street, Lowell, Mass. 


Tickets can be obtained at the principal offices of the Pennsylvania R. R. and the Philadelphia & Reading 
R. R„ south and west of New York, the Fall River, Providence, Stonington and Norwich Lines 8 
of steamers, I. Cook & Son, 261 Broadway, New York, and 322 Washington St 
Boston, and at ticket offices in New England and the Provinces ’ 


J. B. Coyle, Manager, 

PORTLAND, ME. 


E. A. Waldron, General Passenger Agent, 

BOSTON, MASS . 


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H. Sanborn, General Traveling Agent, 


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PREFACE. 


Recognizing the fact that the space afforded in this book will not 
permit a liberal description of the summer resorts in Eastern Maine, 
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton, 
reached by this company’s steamers and connections, the writer has 
endeavored to portray the route from its western to eastern lh'M^, 
giving the attractions of the water-journey together with a-n 
abridged pen-picture of the scenes encountered by the voyager in 
eastern seas, from the port of Boston to and beyond the United 
States boundary. 

This, then, is presented with the hope that whatever is lacking of 
interest and beauty may be discovered by the tourist in person, and 
that the daylight ocean voyage may not be forgotten in planning 
the holiday trip. 

E. A. WALDRON, 

General Passenger Agent, 

International S. S. Co. 



PRINTED AND ENGRAVED BY 

Matthews, Northrup &, Co. 
BUFFALO, n. y 




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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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PAGE. 

Preface. . 

Chapter I. — The Invitation, introducing the Old North East — The Interna¬ 
tional Steamship Line — Its Tourist Facilities—Its Ships,.5 

Chapter II.— The St. John Route in Detail — Boston the Starting Point — 
Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay—Eastward, IIo! — The Isles of 
Shoals Boon Island—Saline Types — Old Orchard and Connecting 
Beaches — The Grand View of the White Mountains — The Harbor Lights 

of Portland,..g 

Chapter III. — Portland, Maine — Entrance to its Harbor, the Cape Shore 
and Islands — A War-time Incident—Through the City — Longfellow — 

The Union Station — Train Facilities — A Bit Historical,.13 

Chapter IV.— Eastward from Portland — Casco Bay — Harpswell — Half¬ 
way Rock— Seguin, the Mouth of the Kennebec — Monhegan — Pemaquid 

— The Sea-fight Far Away,.jg 

Chapter V. — Passamaquoddy, and About There — Phenomenal Tides—As 

' a Health Resort—-General Greely’s Testimony—A Passamaquoddy Inci¬ 
dent — Eastport — North Lubec — Cutler — Pembroke — Perry — Dennysville 

— Robbinston — Campobello — Grand Manan—St. Andrews,.23 

Chapter VI.-—The St. Croix River-—The Schoodic Lakes—Sporting Possi¬ 
bilities— The Ascent of the River — Douchet’s Island — The Des Monts 
Expedition — The Magaguadavic River and Lake Eutopia — Calais and St. 
Stephen — The Rule of the Road, . ..37 

Chapter VII. — From Eastport to St. John — Bay of Lundy Glimpses—St. 

John — Points of Interest — The “Reversible Cataract ” — Historical Pic¬ 
tures— The River St. John — Its Fishing and Hunting Possibilities — The 

New Brunswick Railway,.43 

Chapter VIII. — New Brunswick for Sport — The Salmon Streams, How to 
Reach Them — The Miramichi — The Tobique— Headwaters of the St. 

John — Grand Falls, ..53 

Chapter IX.— The Northern Province — Intercolonial Railway — Some of 
its Towns — Its Fishing Resorts — Grand Falls of the Nepisiquit — Resti- 
gouche and Metapedia — Lake and River—-Provincial Game Laws, and Close 

Time,.38 

Chapter X.—Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton—-The Garden of Nova 
Scotia — The Passage of the Ice-boats—Summerside, Charlottetown — A 
Cheap Bill of Fare — The Round-about Route — Cape Breton Island — Bras 
D’Or — The Arm of Gold — Geological'Wonders — Coal Deposits — The 

Marb'le Mountain—Louisburg — An Historical Revel,.67 

Chapter XI. — The Lower Peninsula of Nova Scotia —Halifax, the Metrop¬ 
olis of the Province — The Rail Route to the Annapolis Valley, .... 77 

Chapter XII.— The Direct Line — Boston to Digby, Annapolis, and the 
Land of Evangeline — Annapolis Royal — Grand Pr6—The Story of the 
Acadians — Grande Finale,.81 















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LUBEC, MAINE, FROM PHOTOGRAPH. 


















CHAPTER I. 

INTRODUCTORY TO THE REGION REACHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL 

STEAMSHIP LINE-THE COMPANY’S SHIPS AND 

SERVICE ON THE DOUBLE ROUTE. 

“ There is a society where none intrude, 

By the deep sea; and music in its roar.’' 

AN OCEAN VOYAGE in connection with my summer’s outing? 

Yes ! An ocean voyage, in palatial steamers, thoroughly staunch 
and of sea-going qualities as complete as are their fine appointments 
and cuisine. 

But first tell me whither will your fancy lead ? Shall it be to the 
eastward, to the numerous health and pleasure resorts along the 
coast or in the inferior of the State of Maine ; or farther still 
beyond the International boundary, where lies a vast country under 
British dominion, full of beauty and crowned with a wealth of inter¬ 
est, replete with the blended romance, story and tradition connected 
with the earliest settlement of the North American continent ? 

A country which gave refuge to the early voyagers from Europe, 
at a time when the Pilgrim Fathers of the Old Colony were in lead¬ 
ing strings, and now through two centuries presents its peculiar 
manners, customs and civilization as an auxiliary charm to the sum¬ 
mer tourist from “The States,” giving him a taste of Europe only 
to be found this side the Atlantic ; in this quaint Old North-East, 
this country under the shadow of the Crown, this “ Land of Evan- 

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INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 


geline ” and the British Red-coat. Novelty adds to the pleasures of 
the outing, for 

’Tis by novelty enjoyment lives. 

Therefore, in planning the itinerary for your summer tour, ye pilgrims 
from the heat and dust of cities, bear in mind the water routes 
offered by the International Steamship Company, and follow its 
pathways through Maine-coast waves to the eastern country, or 
make one of its terminals the gateway for reaching your chosen goal. 

The best part of going to sea is keeping near the shore, which 
presents an ever-changing panorama to the view. This is one of 
the charms of the International Line. Its steamers running within 
sight of the coast line, introduce its patrons to the many interesting 
points along shore ; a sort of voyage of discovery which includes 
city, town, village, and country ; the physical features, capes, bays, 
and promontories, rugged barriers of the sea, and last, but not least, 
the tall beacons which light the shoals and harbors. 

There is nothing which inspires the mind of man like the light¬ 
house, which, crowning the rocky headlands along shores, flash their 
warnings one to another and far to sea, thus by their peculiarity of 
light forming a sort of flash and darkness system of telegraphy, 
which tells the sailor not only of the approach to land, but his posi¬ 
tion also. 

“I lit the lamps in the light-house tower, 

For the sun dropped down and the day was dead; 

They shone like a golden clustered flower — 

Two golden and five red.” 

John Quincy Adams says he never saw these coast-lights in the 
evening without recalling to mind the light Columbus saw flashing 
from shore the night he discovered the New World. 

If there is inspiration to be drawn from them it must occur in the 
passage of the International Steamers on the ocean-voyage from 
Boston Light to Quoddy Head, and farther within the Bay of Fundy, 
with the lights along the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay, Cape 
Ann, Thatcher’s Island, Isle of Shoals, Boon Island, Cape Elizabeth, 
Portland Head, Half-Way Rock, Seguin, Monhegan, Pemaquid 
Point, and a host of others intervening. 

In connection with its steamship lines this company has estab¬ 
lished a complete system of tourist routes and rates (see pages 
97 _ 99)> covering all rail and steamboat lines necessary for reaching 
the summer-resorts of Maine, and the White Mountains of New 


SEA COAST RESORTS. 


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Hampshire, as well as those within the Maritime Provinces of New 
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Cape Bre¬ 
ton ; while the new and growing popular resort of Cutler (Maine), 
Famous Grand Manan, the charming Passamaquoddy Bay, resting 
retreats of Campobello Island and St. Andrews-by-the-sea, are 
reached best by its own line, which continuing on to St. John (New 
Brunswick), and to the quaint towns of Digby and Annapolis (Nova 
Scotia), in the “ Annapolis Basin,” finds there the gateway through 
which the traveller reaches all Provincial points. 

In addition to its sea-coast route, the International Steamship 
Company maintains a direct line between Boston, Digby and 
Annapolis, Nova Scotia. The Company, founded in i860, has at 
the present time in commission two of the finest steamers in eastern 
waters; the “State of Maine” and the “Cumberland” are Bath- 
built side-wheel craft of 1600 tons burden, constructed during the 
years 1882 and 1885 respectively, by the ship-building company, 
which has just received the government contract to build two cruisers 
for our new navy, modern in every particular, and rival the floating 
palaces of Long Island Sound. Large expense, is made by the 
liberal management of the line in keeping its steamers up to a high 
standard of excellency. The menu and table service is unsurpassed. 



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CHAPTER II. 


THE ST. JOHN ROUTE IN DETAIL-SIGHTS ALONG THE COAST FROM 

BOSTON TO PORTLAND-THE ISLES OF SHOALS, 

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, ETC. 

jDOSTON is the grand focal point to which converging lines from 
All America concentrate the throng of eastern tourist travel, 
each season growing larger as the manifold attractions which the 
country holds are advertised, and advertise themselves, as no pen 
can, to the health-seeking, pleasure-seeking summer visitor. 

There are rail routes and water routes for again distributing this 
throng, but only one line, the International Steamship Company, 
offers the attraction of a “ thro’-by-daylight ” sail via Portland. 
This is a distinctive feature. Then, too, the sea voyage has ever 
been the panacea for human ills, of the brain-wearied, ennuied order, 
so we will fancy the tourist — for the outing is to be a search for com¬ 
bined health and pleasure — embarked upon one of the good ships of 
the line, for the voyage, Eastward, Ho ! The route skirts the coast 
for a great part of the distance, so there is little fear of mal-de-mer. 

During the season of tourist travel, May ist to November ist, 
one of the International fleet will leave Commercial Wharf, Boston, 
at 8.30 each alternate day of the week, Mondays, Wednesdays, and 
Fridays for its eastern ports. This is a most convenient hour for 
the traveler, insuring him an unhurried breakfast at his hotel, after 
which take carriage or car for the point of embarkation. 

All in good time the steamer bears away, at an hour when the 
harbor scene is brightest, and the points of interest are clearly in 
view, past Fort Independence, with Deer Island, on which are the 
city institutions of charity and the house of correction, and the main 
land of Winthrop upon the left. The seventy-five islands and islets 
which exist within the encircling arms of the three—Dorchester, 
Quincy and Hingham bays, which constitute the harbor of “ The 
Hub ’’ — are clustered in the seaward landscape. 

Looking toward the city the united Charles and Mystic rivers are 
seen entering the sea, dividing East Boston from the city proper ; 
while in line with the former rises Bunker Hill Monument above the 
heights of Charlestown. 


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SEA COAST RESORTS. 


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From the City of Boston to the final point of egress from its har¬ 
bor, the outlet of the main ship channel, the distance is about seven 
miles. The passage is filled with interest throughout. After leav¬ 
ing the harbor the ship’s course is shaped along the north shore of 
Massachusetts Bay, with the tall white beacons, discernible from 
the decks, standing singly and in doubles so plentifully along this 
coast, where at night their signal fires blaze far across the waters 
like fallen stars from Heaven, guiding the sailor to the hospitable 
harbors of Swampscott, Marblehead, Salem, Gloucester, and a 
hundred lesser ports, a succession of attractive sea-coast cities and 
towns, loaded with interest, song and story. 

“You may ride in an hour or two if you will, 

From Halibut Point to Beacon Hill, 

With the sea beside you all the way, 

Through pleasant places that skirt the Bay ; 

By Gloucester Harbor and Beverly Beach, 

Salem’s old steeples, Nahant’s long reach, 

Blue-bordered Swampscott, and Chelsea’s wide 
Marshes, laid bare to the drenching tide, 

With a glimpse of Saugus spire in the west, 

And Malden hills in their dreamy rest. ” 

Halibut Point is the extreme northern point on Cape Ann, Cape 
Ann the extreme limit of Massachusetts Bay, Beacon Hill the acme 
of the exclusive exclusiveness of the City of Boston. 

The above lines from the pen of Lucy Larcom fitly describe the 
route of the steamer from the wharves of Boston to the limit of 
Cape Ann, for as straight as the chart directs, the course of the 
steamer has been for Thatcher’s Island, lying off the eastern point 
of the cape, midway between the ports of Gloucester and Rockport, 
and proudly bearing the cape lights. 

At the entrance to the harbor of Gloucester, where is now a sum¬ 
mer settlement bearing the name Magnolia, lies the luckless reef of 
Norman’s Woe, famous as the scene of Longfellow’s poem, “ Wreck 
of the Hesperus.” Leaving Thatcher’s Island the steamer heads 
direct for its next objective point, the harbor lights of Portland, 
Maine. 

Now the curving coast line of New Hampshire and of Maine per¬ 
mits' the ocean voyage ; and between the two points, for a few hours 
only, the steamer passes “ out of sight of land.” The cruise outside 
between Cape Ann and Portland is varied by the approach and pas¬ 
sage of the Isles of Shoals, with their color of romance. These 


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islands, a half dozen in number, lie in two states, their position 
directly off the mouth of the Piscataqua River, which forms the 
boundary between New Hampshire and Maine, and about nine miles 
from the coast; from their position there arose a question of juris¬ 
diction, growing out of a most atrocious murder committed on 
Smutty Nose during the year 1873. The murderer was finally tried 
in the Maine courts, and suffered for his crime at Thomaston, the site 
of the Maine State Prison. Other startling crimes have colored the 
history of the Isles of Shoals. No section of country could con¬ 
tribute a larger or more thrilling volume in the records of piracy 
in the New World than these islands. It is certain that in the olden 
time they formed the rendezvous of such noted buccaneers as Kidd, 
Dixey Bull and Blackbeard. 

This was a desirable place to refit or repair ships. Troublesome 
questions, and questionable appearances were avoided, as the pirate 
craft lay sheltered in the roads between these high headlands, w T hile 
their crews found shelter amid the rocky fortresses ashore. To 
relate the tales of wreck and ruin wrought by the pirate kings who 
have cruised to the Isles of Shoals to bury their ill-gotten treasure 
among the rocks, or the recital of the fearful sights and sounds 
which have met those whose hardihood permitted the search for the 
hidden wealth, would fill a volume and satisfy the most hungry sen¬ 
sationalist of the times. 

Star Island, one of New Hampshire’s possessions, bears a monu¬ 
ment erected in 1864 to the memory of Captain John Smith of early 
colonial fame, and White Island bears the warning light of the 
Shoals. 

Boon Island, a lonely, desolate rock with a tall beacon, lies some 
distance east of the Isles of Shoals, directly off the coast of Maine, 
some twelve miles distant from the historic town of York. As we 
pass it to-day one can scarcely credit the story of the wreck of the 
Nottingham and the terrible scenes of cannibalism among her crew, 
who were held prisoners by the waves upon the wild rock during 
twenty-four days in December, 1811. Wonder not then at the num¬ 
ber of the coast lights which warn the sailors of to-day against a 
fate so dire. 

But now a bountiful dinner is being served within the spacious 
saloon, at which there is always a merry company, and after which 
there is time for a delightful siesta upon the promenade deck, in easy 
steamer chairs, where, fanned by the salt breath of the sea, with book 
on lap, one may lazily pass the time, or curiously study the queer 


SEA COAST RESORTS. 


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saline types of humanity to be met always in the passage of the 
Northern New England coast. 

Engage such a one in conversation, and you are repaid by tales of 
the coast. He knows every bay and headland from Boston Light to 
Quoddy Head, and farther east to the ‘‘Grand Banks” of New¬ 
foundland, of marvelous catches and prodigious bags of game ; for 
your old salt is a born gunner, with sea-fowl his lawful prize. A 
life by the sea begets a spirit of sturdy independence, therefore he 
is a political economist of no mean order, indeed, the student of 
human nature can find no better field in which to pursue his studies 
than on the coast line of New England. Happily he will not be 
slow to discover the kindly side to the character of these quaint old 
salts. 

Now the ship again approaches the coast and one sees the long 
line of Old Orchard Beach, with its mammoth hotels. Just west of 
Old Orchard’s broad sweep, as may be plainly seen from the deck, 
the curving coast extends seaward to Biddeford Pool, at the mouth 
of the Saco River. Between this point and the “Two Lights” on 
Cape Elizabeth’s shore, extend in one continuous line numerous 
beaches which form the rallying-place for many summer guests. 

They may be considered environments of Portland, being reached 
many times daily by a half-hour rail ride from the city, or by car¬ 
riage ride over delightful shore roads beside the sounding sea. 
They are, in their order, Old Orchard, Pine Point, Scarborough and 
Higgins’ Beaches, with Prout’s Neck, a narrow peninsula, as its 
name implies, extending far into the bay at a point where the 
Nonesuch River and its estuary forms the only break in this great 
stretch of sand. 

• These form a succession of the grandest cooling-off places which 
Nature has provided for a long-suffering public. To one who 
delights in the ocean — and who does not ? — they conjure up pleasant 
memories of gradually-sloping beach of the whitest sea-sand, 
washed continually by giant breakers, among which sport a throng 
of bathers in every nondescript costume known to that gay pastime. 

Two score hotels, large and small, line the beaches, facing sea¬ 
ward, where orchestras, hops and fashionable doings are the order 
of the day and night, among three thousand guests. 

It is while the steamer is passing this point that in a clear day 
the passengers are treated to the fairest view of the distant White 
Mountains of New Hampshire to be had from any equally distant 
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This view from the sea is particularly striking. There are other 
and nearer elevations which are ofttimes confounded with the White 
Mountains by strangers to this region, but the scene which these 
everlasting hills here present once seen is never forgotten nor mis¬ 
called. 

Mt. Washington is ninety and odd miles distant in an air line from 
the City of Portland, yet the whole chain of which Washington 
forms the highest and grandest elevation, stands out in individual 
distinction. They may be seen again at a point after leaving the 
city, but the view is incomparable to this. 

After passing Old Orchard the twin beacons of the “Two Lights” 
upon the Cape Elizabeth shore come into view, then “ Portland 
Head ” light marking the entrance to the first harbor entered by the 
steamer in the daylight run from Boston. The noble headlands of 
this shore, bold, storm-defying, rugged types of Maine’s rugged 
coast, have formed the subject of many a grand marine painting, 
and given inspiration to artist and poet. 

“ Even at this distance I can see the tides, 

Upheaving, break unheard along the base; 

A speechless wrath that rises and subsides, 

In the white lip, and tremor of the face. 

“ Sail on ! ” it says, ‘ sail on ’ ye stately ships, 

And with your fleeting bridge the oceans span; 

Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse, 

Be yours to bring man nearer unto man.’” 

A passing incident in connection with the “ Two Lights ” may 
here prove of interest. Just within their shadow, upon the rocks 
surrounding Broad Cove, Cape Elizabeth, the good ship Bohemian, 
an iron English mail steamer of the Allan Line, for whom Portland 
forms the winter port during the close time of the St. Lawrence 
River by ice, struck and was torn in pieces by the waves one stormy 
April morning of the year 1862. 

Many lives were lost upon this the last occasion of disaster to a 
passenger steamer , attended by loss of life , which has visited the eastern 
shore. 

Can many transportation lines, carrying the traffic which offers 
upon these favorite water routes, show a better record than twenty- 
eight years without loss of life to its thousands carried yearly ? 


CHAPTER III. 


PORTLAND, MAINE, THE BIRTHPLACE OF LONGFELLOW — A PICTURESQUE 

HARBOR AT SUNDOWN-THROUGH THE CITY- 

ROUTES TO NOTED TOURIST RESORTS. 

“Often I think of the beautiful town 
That is seated by the sea ; 

Often in thought go up and down 

The pleasant streets of that dear old town, 

And my youth comes back to me.” 

'T'HE entrance to Portland harbor, after passing the light at 
^ Portland Head, is through the broad ship channel with the 
Cape Shore upon the left, and Cushing’s Island forming the right 
extreme. 

An extended view of Portland’s summer hotels and cottages may 
be had from this point. The Cape Shore is lined with the summer 
homes of the city’s business men, many of them most imposing sub¬ 
jects of modern architecture. This shore also bears pleasant hotels, 
the Cape Cottage and Ocean House, for example, many boarding¬ 
houses, and the coast defences of the city whose sunset gun speeds 
the departing day. 

Upon Cushing’s to the right, rises the broad roof and dome of 
“ The Ottawa,” the finest hotel in the harbor, new in 1889, to replace 
one destroyed the previous season. Beautiful cottages also adorn 
Cushing’s, which is the most exclusive of Casco’s isles. 

Immediately after rounding the point of this island the city bursts 
upon the view from its commanding position upon the peninsula 
heights three miles distant. 

The view from seaward in the approach to the city is incompara¬ 
ble, and is, indeed, the only point of view which shows Portland to 
advantage. The time of arrival at this point, too,—5 P. M.—is 
most opportune for sight-seeing. The sun, yet well up in the heavens 
directly above the city, behind whose roofs and spires it sinks into 
the west with most charming cloud effects of ever-varying hue. 

The harbor scene is most attractive, for the mammoth steamer is 
now in the path of the many excursion boats plying between the 

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city and its cottage-covered suburban islands. Among them our 
ship seems colossal, and we are, for the passing moment, the centre 
of attraction to the gay groups who throng the decks of the smaller 
craft, which now are dancing in the huge swell of our wake. Thou¬ 
sands visit “ The Islands ” daily. A fleet of ten boats making con¬ 
stant trips ; cottages and club-houses, innumerable almost, shelter 
the summer population, while the white tents of campers are anchored 
in every available spot. 

Steam and sailing craft of every style are met or passed in the 
ascent of the harbor — a harbor which bears this distinction — let 
us turn from descriptive to incident, and relate it. 

This busy harbor formed the theatre of action for the only inva¬ 
sion of a northern port by the enemy during the war of the rebel¬ 
lion ; when the revenue cutter Caleb Cushing was “cut out” from 
under the guns of the now obsolete fort upon the right, by an armed 
force, who, at midnight—1863—overpowered her crew and succeeded 
in getting away with the craft, an armed sailing schooner of modest 
size. 

No doubt the Cushing would have been turned into a privateer 
by her captors, had not her absence been discovered at daybreak 
from the observatory — mark the building, in form like the coast 
lights we have been passing — which crowns the eastern extremity of 
the city, and from which all vessels entering the port are signaled. 
Pursuit was made in two steamers, the Forest City and the Chesa¬ 
peake. The latter, of the Portland-New York line, was herself after¬ 
ward captured on the high sea by a band of confederates, who joined 
the ship in New York as passengers, took possession and sailed to 
an English port. 

These two steamers pursued the cutter, overtook her becalmed 
about twenty miles from shore, where the cutting-out party, with the 
crew as prisoners, abandoned the ship after firing her magazine, 
blowing the trim little schooner into fragments. 

Through the lively phases of the harbor scene the steamer makes 
its way along the complete water front of the city, with glimpses of 
the elm-shaded streets, which have won for it the sobriquet of “ The 
Forest City,” to its berth at railroad wharf, foot of State Street. 

It is but a short walk up this broad avenue, State Street, to the 
street-cars for “ down town ; ” carriages also are ever in waiting the 
arrival. The cars pass all hotels, through the principal thorough¬ 
fares of retail trade, Congress and Middle streets, to the wharves 
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moments, however, a quarter mile walk through State Street straight 
from the steamer, one of the handsomest old avenues that the 
world affords, brings one to State Street Square, which contains a 
fine bronze statue of the poet Longfellow, the first erected in his 
honor, save the bust in Westminster Abbey. 

We shall see much of Longfellow here at his birthplace and early 
home, and again in the voyage eastward to the country and people 
he has immortalized in that American classic, “ Evangeline.” Taking 
street-cars in this square a ride of five minutes’ duration brings the 
traveler to the new and palatial Union Passenger Railway Station. 
This is the gateway to interior Maine, and the White Mountains, 
via the Maine Central Railroad, whose trains are replete with every 
convenience of travel, and each season bear a host of summer visitors 
to the hunting and fishing resorts of Rangeley and Moosehead lakes, 
and whose Mountain Division reaches the White Mountain resorts 
through the wonderland of the Crawford Notch. 

Here it is possible to take a train with Pullman sleepers at eleven 
o’clock each night of the week, which shall bear the visitor to Bar 
Harbor and the many fashionable resorts on Mt. Desert Island in 
season for breakfast next morning. Here also numerous trains 
depart daily for Poland Spring, with its superb hotel, the eastern 
Ponce De Leon, as well as for all interior and coast towns of the 
State of Maine. 

The “Union” is between the Maine Central and Boston and 
Maine railroads, who use together this beautiful and commodious 
station, to the mutual advantage of themselves and patrons. The 
Boston and Maine trains make frequent trips to the line of beaches 
which we saw from the steamer just beyond the Cape Shore, for 
Old Orchard direct, and for Scarboro Beach, Pine Point and Prout’s 
Neck, from Scarboro and Pine Point stations, where carriage con¬ 
veyance is in waiting for all beach hotels. 

It is but twelve miles from the City of Portland to Old Orchard 
Beach, and the train delivers its passengers directly in the midst of 
one of the liveliest sea-shore scenes in the world. The beach is but 
a hundred yards distant, its great combing surf line making itself 
known at once. The largest hotels upon the coast of Maine are 
here, and invite a sojourn. 

Old Orchard ranks with Cape May and Atlantic City in popularity 
with summer guests. It may be reached on the day of departure 
from Boston, in season for a six o’clock tea, by the ocean day-line 
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At the farther extremity of the city, reached also by street-cars, 
stands the station of the Grand Trunk Railway, whose trains 
offer another route to Poland Spring, to the Rangeley Region, and 
to the White Mountains. 

At the same wharf which witnessed our landing, the steamer City 
of Richmond of the Portland, Mt. Desert & Machias Steamboat Line 
leaves twice weekly, upon Tuesday and Friday, at eleven P. M. for 
Bar Harbor, all points upon Mt. Desert and farther east along the 
coast. Altogether Portland offers a variety of routes for reaching 
the many tourist points within the State, to which the water journey, 
the daylight sail from Boston, has been the breezy prelude. 

Founded in 1632, under the Indian title Machigonne, the now 
City of Portland during the earlier days of settlement was the scene 
of many a fierce encounter between its hardy pioneers and the red 
men. After three bloody assaults the settlement finally, in the year 
1689, succumbed to these Indian attacks, and those who escaped 
death by the tomahawk and arrow, fled, leaving the deserted ruin of 
fort and home to bird and wild beast for a period of twenty-five 
years, when a number of sturdy veterans from the disbanded garri¬ 
sons along the coast made their homes here, and when the Indians 
once more came down to pay their compliments they found a line of 
fortified streets and strong guards at every point. 

The town now bore the name of Falmouth and enjoyed a flourish¬ 
ing commerce with the West Indies, when disaster again visited in 
the form of Captain Mowatt’s British fleet, which sailed into its har¬ 
bor one bright morning during the Revolutionary period—17 75 —and 
after a destructive bombardment of eight hours landed a party of 
red coats who fired all buildings spared by the red-hot shots of the 
ships. Falmouth again sank in ruins, yet to appear again, and as 
the reconstructed City of Portland go through a third firey ordeal 
upon the “ Glorious 4th,” 1866, when a carelessly thrown fire-cracker 
started a conflagration, which, burning with fatal steadiness for six¬ 
teen hours, destroyed ten millions of property. 

To-day, with a population approaching forty thousand, and a val¬ 
uation of as many million of dollars, four daily newspapers, half a 
dozen national banks and thirty odd churches, surrounded by resting 
retreats of sea and shore, silvery-sanded beach and inland lake, this 
beautiful city, a carriage drive about which would amply repay a 
visit, whose large, well-kept hotels hold out a welcome to all, offers 
attractions to sojourn within its borders, or among its surroundings, 
which can but fill the time with pleasure. 


CHAPTER IV. 


EASTWARD AGAIN FROM PORTLAND-A CHARMING TWILIGHT RUN 

ALONG A HISTORIC COAST-THE MOUTH OF THE 

KENNEBEC, MONHEGAN ISLAND, ETC. 

npHE exit of the steamer from Portland harbor is, when the tide 
^ will allow, through the famous “ White Head Passage,” a 
narrow water-way formed by the approaching shores of Peak’s and 
Cushing’s islands. Upon the latter, and so near that, to use a nautical 
phrase, one could throw a biscuit to the steamer’s deck, rises the 
towering height of White Head, one of the finest examples of the 
rugged coast of Maine existing. It recalls the lines — 

And many a homesick tear is shed 
By wanderers far away, 

As mem’ry reverts to “ Old White Head,” 

And the islands of Casco Bay. 

Upon the left Peaks Island, so close aboard that the music of its 
bands in pavilion and summer garden is borne to the steamer’s deck, 
for this is the “ Coney Island of the East,” and the scene of merry 
revel. At unfavorable times of tide the passage out is through the ship 
channel, as we entered, and skirting the seaward shore of these islands. 

These are the scenes which the inland traveler wots not of, and 
more follow in succession during the three hours of daylight which 
remains after leaving the Forest City. 

Here are some of them : The passage through White Head leads 
directly to the sea, and the course is shaped just outside the fringe of 
islands, three hundred and sixty-five of which, by popular fable, are 
supposed to cluster within the encircling arms of Casco Bay, between 
the twin light upon Cape Elizabeth and the mouth of the Kennebec. 

Unlike the islands in the harbor of Boston, arid, treeless and 
unadorned, Casco’s Isles are forest crowned, with a primeyal growth 
of pines and other northern woods, while, especially in the vicinity 
of Portland, they are adorned by the hand of man combined with 
Nature and bear striking examples of summer architecture. Long¬ 
fellow calls them— 

‘ ‘ The islands that were the Hesperides 
Of all my boyish dreams.” 

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The cruise brings them into view, and with them the long penin¬ 
sulas and deep indenting bays of Harpswell, as the steamer plows 
merrily along. 

“ Half-way Rock”—half-way between Portland and the Kenne¬ 
bec—is passed at this juncture ; its tall light, a perfect Eddystone 
in its solitude, and its whistling buoy accompaniment in the fore¬ 
ground directly in the path of the steamer, which passes outside. 
Upon the mainland the shores of Old Falmouth rise to the elevation 
called Black-Strap Hill,—why Black-Strap tradition sayeth not— 
which bears upon its summit a spindle erected by the United States 
Coast Survey as a land mark, to aid in their research. Travelers, 
strangers probably from the “ Prairie States,” have mistaken this for 
Mt. Washington. It is safe to assert that none who have made 
the journey by the ocean day-line from Boston and witnessed the 
view from our strategic point, will be likely to confuse this mole-hill 
of Maine with the monarch of New Hampshire. 

This will be a good point for reckoning—Item : Bring your field 
glasses and get the points of the compass fixed like a true sailor. 
Now, with the whistling buoy in direct line with Half-way Rock, 
pointing north, the whole panorama of Casco Bay is explained. 

Just to the east of north the long peninsula of Harpswell projects 
far into the sea, island-surrounded upon all sides. To the west the 
larger islands of Chebeague, Long, The Diamonds, Peaks and Cush¬ 
ings in succession, surround the harbor of Portland, shutting the 
city from view. The shores of Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth 
and Freeport form the horizon. 

After leaving Half-way Light, Martinicus Rock is the next objec¬ 
tive point, in search of which the steamer soon rounds Cape Small 
Point, to find “ Sequin” marking the approach to the mouth of the 
Kennebec, which noble river, famous world-wide for its ice product, 
flows from the clear depths of Moosehead Lake, in Northern Maine, 
until joining the waters of the Androscoggin, second only to itself, 
and forming the outlet of the Rangeley Lakes ; the two from Merry- 
meeting Bay — suggestive name ! — just above the coast line flow 
as one to find the sea at this point. 

Its estuary forms the harbor of Boothbay, whose islands, Mouse and 
Squirrel, are summer-populated by hundreds of campers, cottagers 
and boarders. Boothbay Harbor forms the rendezvous of many a 
yachting party from metropolitan cities to and fro eastern points. 

We have met this white-winged craft, many of them in the voy¬ 
age from Boston, for they are ever present in these summer waters, 


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and include the entire ensemble of pleasure craft, from the tiny 
sloop to stately schooners, cup-winners, with the floating palaces of 
the Bennetts’, Goulds’ and Astors’; for all favor this picturesque 
coast, each season cruising Eastward, Ho ! 

Leaving Sequin with its stately light, one of the many beacons of 
which Whittier says : 

“ From gray sea fog, from icy drift, 

From peril and from pain ; 

The home-bound fisher greets thy lights 
O, hundred harbored Maine.” 

Monhegan next comes to the front. O, for space to pick up some 
of the many threads of history connected with the steamer’s sur¬ 
roundings as she plows along this coast, events dating back prior to 
the landing of the Pilgrims, for it was Samoset, a chieftain of Mon¬ 
hegan, who, at Plymouth, met the Puritans with the English words, 
“Welcome! Whitemen ! ” 

Monhegan is the most famous island on the New England coast ; 
it appears upon the oldest charts in existence, and to it the earliest 
voyagers to the Western Continent converged. Champlain sailed 
the Des Monts expedition to this point in 1604. Weymouth was 
here in 1607, trading with the Indians of Pemaquid. Pemaquid, the 
ancient fortified city, which to this day forms the goal of historian 
and antiquarian, the Pompeii of the west. These delve in her paved 
streets and unearth her old fortifications, enthusiastically recalling 
scenes which have added pages to our early history. 

Between Monhegan and the mainland of Pemaquid Point was 
fought that desperately contested sea-fight between the Enterprise 
and Boxer, familiar to every school-boy of the land. The English 
brig Boxer had been fitted out with the express purpose of engaging 
the Enterprise, an American brig of her own class and armament. 
The Enterprise had seen service in the wars with Algiers, and now 
called home by the War of 1812, was given a cruising ground along 
the coast of Maine to keep watch for the enemy’s privateers. 

Decatur had been her commander, but she was now taken to sea 
by Lieutenant Burrows, an intrepid seaman, of whom it was believed 
he would die sooner than surrender. After terrorizing the sea-coast 
villages, and firing a fisherman or two, the Boxer cast anchor Satur¬ 
day, September 4, 1814, in Pemaquid Bay. 

On the morning of the Sabbath, calm, clear and beautiful as a 
September morning in these seas can be, the lookout from the Boxer 
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In a moment all was activity on board the Englishman, who, drop¬ 
ping a few shots upon the village and old Fort Frederick by way of 
compliment, up anchor and away to a point about three miles from 
shore and then stripped to fighting canvas. The Enterprise coming 
up noted the invitation, and cleared for action. 

In expectancy of this event both ships had been prepared by their 
crews, rubbed down and polished off with as much care as a pugilist 
receives from his trainers ; so earnest were those of the Boxer, that 
her colors were nailed to the mast, an act which doubtless cost some 
lives in the event which followed. 

The fight lasted forty minutes ; and so closely were the ships 
engaged that after the first broadsides nothing could be seen of the 
combatants, save the flash of the guns through the thick veil of 
smoke which enveloped all. When the fire slackened the Enterprise 
was seen to be the victor. Both commanders were killed outright ; 
and on the 7th the Enterprise, with the Boxer in tow, set sail for 
Portland, where equal honors were bestowed upon the dead. 
Wrapped each in his country’s colors, the dead captains were borne 
to their final resting place in the ancient cemetery, under the shadow 
of the observatory which we saw crowning the eastern extremity o f 
the City of Portland as we entered its harbor. 

The roar of combat was plainly heard through the Sabbath still¬ 
ness of the Forest City, and Longfellow refers to it thus in his poem, 

“ My Lost Youth 

“ I remember the sea-fight far away, 

How it thundered o’er the tide ! 

And the dead captains, as they lay 
In their graves,, o’erlooking the tranquil bay. 

Where they together died.” 

Through scenes, the theater of such events, the steamer makes 
its way, during the long twilight of summer, and now as the coast 
lights beam through the gathering gloom one by one her voyagers 
“ seek the seclusion that the stateroom grants,” where, surrounded 
by the invigorating air, blown from the wide salt sea, amid odors 
such as no landsman knows, they sink to rest, wooed by a quiet 
broken, yet not disturbed, by the dull, far away throb of the engines 
and the wash of the waves. There are no noisy landings, with their 
accompanying discharge of freight, to disturb refreshing slumber, 
which may continue until the landing at Eastport at 7.30 next 
morning. 







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CHAPTER V. 


PASSAMAQUODDY AND ABOUT THERE-EASTPORT AND ITS SURROUND¬ 
INGS-HOW TO REACH THE GRAND MANAN, CAMPOBELLO, 

LUBEC, ETC.-A SUMMER CAMP. 

TNRUFFLED Passamaquoddy Bay lies sheltered from the sea 
^ by a mighty chain of islands, all British territory, for this is 
the eastern extremity of the United States. 

Its shores and islands bear numerous summer resorts, which possess 
enough of individuality to warrant a separate and detailed descrip¬ 
tion. At favorable times of tide, when it “ serves,” to use a nautical 
phrase, the route of the International steamers into Passamaquoddy 
is through “ The Narrows,” formed by Lubec, a white wooded town 
upon the left and the long island of Campobello to the right. The 
entrance to this channel is past the light at “ Quoddy Head,” which 
marks the eastern limit of the United States of America. 

At other seasons of the tide one must circumnavigate Campobello, 
and approach the American town of Eastport through British waters. 
The magnificent sweep of Passamaquoddy Bay must be seen to 
be thoroughly appreciated. Its encircling shores form a horizon 



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seventy-five miles in circumference, all of which from some one of 
its many elevations, as the Chamcook Mountains above St. Andrew’s, 
is brought into one view. It forms an arm of the Bay of Fundy, 
and partakes of its high tides, while its breezy summited islands 
exclude its fogs. 

These phenomenal tides rise and fall twice daily, in Passama- 
quoddy measuring between thirty and forty feet, while to the east¬ 
ward they go still higher. The rivers which find the sea within the 
Bay of Fundy are said to part of the time run up hill, part down as 
the tide swells them. 

There are few islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy after passing 
through the outer fringe which shelters its quiet waters. One of 
these, Minister’s Island, which lies off the peninsula of St. Andrew’s, 
fitly exemplifies these tides. Between this island and the mainland 
there exists at the flood an exact half mile of clear water. At the ebb 
tide one can ride or walk, dry shod, over a bar of shingle connecting 

the two, TWENTY FEET BELOW THE LEVEL OF THE SEA AT HIGH WATER. 

Passamaquoddy is the ideal spot for summer sojourn. Beside the 
historical interest, blending romance with the beautiful in nature, it 
has a peculiar charm for health-seekers in its pleasant air. There is 
no fog, the encircling islands shut out that unwelcome visitor from 
the sea ; the powerful tides remove all refuse far from shore twice 
each day, and last, but not least, there is the assurance given by 
General A. W. Greely, chief of the United States Signal Service, 
which has such a bearing on the subject of climatic perfection 
in this locality that we quote it. 

In an article in “ Scribner’s,” entitled “Where shall we spend 
our summers ? ” after detailing what people are led to expect from 
reading summer literature descriptive of this and that resort, Gen¬ 
eral Greely says : “ There is possibly one place in the United States 
where such conditions obtain,— a bit of country of about forty square 
miles at the extreme south-western part of the United States, in 
which San Diego is situated ; but even here, perhaps once in two or 
three years, the sultry blasts from the Mojave Desert pass over the 
low mountain-range and parch this favored district. ... By a sin¬ 
gular contrast, the second favored spot as to summer weather is the 
extreme northeastern point of the United States,— Eastport, 
Maine. ... At Eastport, the prevailing summer winds are from the 
south, which makes the weather delightful.” Gen. Greely, in the 
charts which accompany his article, places the mean daily tempera¬ 
ture at 68° during the entire heated term. There is another phase 


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of summer weather which is of equal importance with the question 
of temperature. This is a humidity of atmosphere. Again we quote 
Gen. Greely, whose chart shows that the belt denoting the dryest 
atmosphere passes through Passamaquoddy Bay. He says : “ It is 
further of importance to note that the quantity of vapor per cubic 
foot decreases as one goes northward, and the absolute amount of 
water in the air in New Jersey is fifty per cent, greater than in Maine, 
while the quantity along the Atlantic sea-coast from Hatteras south 
is nearly twice as great. ... A dry summer climate is assumed to 
be one where the atmosphere contains five and one-half grains or 
less of aqueous vapor to each cubic foot [our belt has only five 
grains], and on this basis it is safe to recommend the northern half 
of New England and New York.” Gen. Greeley can be considered 
an impartial writer, having no climatic wares to dispose of. In 
naming Eastport, he named the extreme limit of his country and 
consequently of his research, therefore as Eastport, so Passama¬ 
quoddy and about there* 

A PASSAMAQUODDY INCIDENT. 

Immediately following the California gold fever of 1849, a far- 
reaching, notable enterprise was inaugurated in Passamaquoddy. 

In 1850-51 the steamer S. B. Wheeler, a side-wheeled wooden 
craft, in size and tonnage resembling the “ Rose Standish ” of the 
Frontier Steamboat Line, whose steamers now ply the waters of the 
bay and river St. Croix, was built at Eastport. Up the river St. 
Croix, at the towns of Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Bruns¬ 
wick, which we shall see later, on opposite banks of the river, was 
built upon the English side the barque Fanny, with an object in 
view of curious nature. 

The hull of this vessel was towed to Eastport. The captain of 
the “Cumberland,” one of the International fleet,— perchance our 
very ship — forming one of the crew of the tow. 

Here she was sunk, after removing the entire stern of the craft, 
for in her construction this part had been secured by screw bolts 
for this express purpose, and while submerged the steamer was 
floated within and secured by ballast and freight tightly packing 
the entire hold of the barque. Then the Fanny was raised, her 
stern once more secured, her hold freed from water, her masts 
stepped, two of them passing directly through the steamer, her rig¬ 
ging and sails supplied, and out of Passamaquoddy she sailed 
“ ’round The Horn” to San Francisco. 





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Arrived there, the same process was carried out for the removal of 
the steamer, which, reconstructed, sailed for years the Sacramento 
river the first river steamer in California waters. 

No part of the steamer was removed when she wag engulfed 
within the barque, save her funnel and walking-beam. She furnished 
accommodations for the passengers taken out in this way, and posi- 
bly some forty-niners of the Pacific coast may yet remain of those 
who made the voyage in this novel manner. 

EASTPORT, MAINE. 

Eastport, prominent upon the school maps as the extreme east¬ 
ern settlement under the American flag, prominent in history of old- 
time boundary disputes, and the home of the American sardine, is 
situated upon Moose Island, at the entrance of Passamaquoddy Bay, 
separated by a wooden bridge twelve hundred feet in length from 
the mainland town of Perry. 

It is a town of white wooden buildings, a big hotel flying the 
American flag, an exceedingly peaceful-looking arsenal, a fort and a 
United States Coaling Station. 

Along its water front the many wharves are occupied by numer¬ 
ous factories, where minute herring are cooked in salad oil, packed in 
cans exactly resembling the conventional sardine box, and placed on 
the market, a close imitation of the imported article, whose market 
price they have greatly cheapened. Fourteen of these sardine fac¬ 
tories lie within the radius of a circle drawn one-half mile from the 
post-office. They simply line the water front. Previous to the 
fire of 1886 there were twenty-one factories in Eastport, with an 
average capacity of twenty hogsheads of uncooked fish per day, 
representing some 800,000 boxes. Of course, fish in quantities to 
allow this were not to be had every day, but during the season, May 
15th to December 1st, enormous quantities of the fish are caught in 
the weirs which surround the inlets to the bay, and cured. Fish 
that, going in as herring, undergo a metamorphosis, coming out sar¬ 
dines. This is a specialty of the eastern shore, in which Eastport 
bears the palm. 

As is customary in smaller towns, every modern event in Eastport 
dates from “ the fire,” a conflagration that, in 1886, swept the larger 
part of the town into ruins. The effect of the destruction has, on 
the whole, been beneficial to its appearance, as the new buildings 
are greatly superior to the old, and an efficient system of water¬ 
works has since been introduced, while a Government building—- 


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INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 


custom house — for which Congress has appropriated $100,000 is in 
course of erection. This town forms the principal trade centre of 
the frontier. “ The Quoddy ” is its leading hotel. 

Here the International Steamship Company have made special 
provisions for traffic and travel, in its large depot built since the 
fire. At this point its steamers land, and by connecting water routes 
by other boats of lighter draught, the traveller is carried to the resorts 
in Passamaquoddy and its environs, to Campobello and famous 
Grand Manan, to St. Andrews, and the towns of the St. Croix River. 
The Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians from their home, a reservation 
upon Pleasant Point just above Eastport, add a picturesque element 
to the life of the town. Their bark canoes still ply the waters of 
the bay in their periodical visits to the several summer resorts. 
They may, with profit to themselves and the sportman, serve as 
guides in canoeing, hunting, and fishing excursions in the vicinity, 
from their aboriginal knowledge of woodcraft and the famous lurk¬ 
ing places of fish and game. 

NORTH LUBEC. 

Adj oining Eastport, reached by steam ferry across the harbor, lies the 
town of Lubec, approaching Campobello, and reaching northward in a 
series of long peninsulas, characteristic of this rugged eastern shore. 

It is upon one of these sea-girt necks of land, all surrounded by 
Cobscook Bay, and near neighbor to the famous resorts of Passama¬ 
quoddy, that the site for the permanent summer encampment of the 
Young Men’s Christian Association has been chosen. 

Last year, in March, a committee was selected by the New Eng¬ 
land Association to search out and report upon an advantageous 
site. North Lubec was chosen, and unanimously endorsed by the 
annual convention. 

The initial encampment was held August 10th to 25th, 1889. It 
was a complete success. Without exception all were pleased with 
the selection, and the continuance of the encampment at North 
Lubec is assured. 

Leading association men have purchased a large tract of land for 
the purpose of developing the encampment. A new hotel is in pro¬ 
cess of erection, in which ample accommodations for visitors will be 
provided. Bowling alleys, tennis courts and base-ball field afford 
opportunities for amusement and exercise. 

Thus, amid the health-giving breezes from the sea, this associa¬ 
tion has a rallying-place, after the plan of the Maine Chautauquans 


SEA COAST RESORTS. 


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upon another border, that between Maine and New Hampshire, at 
Fryeburg. 

CUTLER, MAINE. 

It is only of late that Cutler Harbor has come to the front as a 
summer resort, from its secluded position on the coast of Maine. 
It lies midway between Mt. Desert and Passamaquoddy in a shel¬ 
tered bay which has proved so attractive, that a syndicate of gentle¬ 
men have purchased the lands about its shores, built a modern 
summer hotel upon improved sanitary conditions, and laid out their 
lands into sites for numerous mansions, cottages, and tastefully 
planned parks. 

Go where you will, by land or water, by carriage or sail, or 
rambling along the shore or in the woods, objects of interest con¬ 
tinually meet the eye. Prominent among these are the Natural 
Bridge, Cross Island, the Norse Wall and Lake, the foot-prints on 
the rocks, caves, lakes, streams and water-falls, the lighthouse and 
life-saving station, the mineral springs and meadow views. It offers 
all the attractions of the secluded coast resort “ far from the mad¬ 
ding crowd,” its little gem of a harbor receiving many white-winged 
yachts during the season who bring hither many summer guests. 

PEMBROKE, PERRY, DENNYSVILLE AND ROBBINSTON. 

Upon the western shore of Passamaquoddy, above Lubec, lies the 
town of Perry, containing Pleasant Point, a village of the Passama¬ 
quoddy tribe of Indians. Pembroke adjoins Perry upon the west, 
and Robbinston lies just above upon the St. Croix. 

These are all coast towns bordering the bay and river with a mul¬ 
tiplicity of projecting peninsulas and encroaching bays, affording 
fine salt-water fishing, while their forests abound with game. 

CAMPOBELLO. 

This Elysium of the summer tourist is his first resort “ over the 
border,” in reaching which, from Eastport, one and one-half miles 
by steam ferry, he crosses that imaginary line, the International 
boundary. The island is picturesque with coves and cliffs, winding 
roads and woods, a series of delightful surprises to the uninitiated. 
One may remain out of doors the entire day without sense of fatigue 
nor heat, so clear, bracing and cool is the sea atmosphere. Fog 
never remains the entire day, and during the last five seasons there 
has been not more than three days each summer month in which it 


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was impossible to walk or drive, while the beauty of the landscape 
is wonderfully increased by the shutting down and lifting of the 
mists. 

‘ * A wind came up out of the sea, 

And said, O mists, make room for me.” 

Campobello and Deer islands are the larger of the islands which 
shut out the sea from Passamaquoddy. Campobello has been chosen 
before its mates as an island summer-resort from its beauty and 
grandeur of situation. 

Upon its shores begin the wild scenery of the Bay of Fundy, a 
name sonorous as its waves, which wash the beetling cliffs upon the 
outer shore of Campobello. The fine model hotel, Tyn-y-coed, is 
happily situated upon one of these cliffs, seventy-five feet above the 
level of the sea, and near the water’s edge. It is provided with all 
the comforts of a refined home, and is beautifully furnished through¬ 
out. Its seaward view embraces a wide sweep of ocean, broken 
only by the purple cliffs of Grand Manan ; shoreward the hilly 
towns of Eastport and Lubec are in the view, which also holds the 
Denny’s River and the famous St. Croix with varied vistas of Pas¬ 
samaquoddy reaches through forest crowned islands that intercept it. 

Campobello partakes with Eastport in the history of old-time 
boundary disputes, and British occupancy of all the islands in the 
bay during the four years, 1814-18, that all remained under martial 
law. The English claimed that all belonged to Great Britain, as 
much so, to quote one of their commissioners, as Northamptonshire, 
an inland county of England. 

It had been a muddle since the treaty of 1783, at the close of the 
Revolutionary war — a muddle which required thirty-five years of 
diplomatic squabbling to clear. Finally, under an article of the treaty 
of Ghent, concluded December 24, 1814, two commissioners were 
appointed to settle the vexed question of ownership ; their final 
report states “that Moose Island, Dudley Island, and Frederick 
Island, in the Bay of Passamaquoddy, do belong to the United 
States, and that all the other islands in the bay and the island of 
Grand Manan, in the Bay of Fundy, belong to His Britannic Majesty.” 
Thus the Union Jack floats over Campobello with its merry summer 
company, and that storm-defying ocean monarch, Grand Manan. 

GRAND MANAN. 

This noble island, “a paradise of sea-girt cliffs,” as some writer 
has termed it, lies in the very entrance to the Bay of Fundy, nine 


3 2 


SEA COAST RESORT. 


miles from the American shore and eighteen miles from Eastport, 
where steamers may be taken for reaching it, by easy sail of two 
hours. 

For a long time Grand Manan has been a favorite resort for marine 
artists and others interested in grand cliff and shore scenery. 

The highest and most precipitous cliffs are at the southern extrem¬ 
ity of the island. Here they rise to a height of from three to four 
hundred feet above the sea, which breaks at their feet with sullen 
roar and spray dashed high against the mighty barrier, dislodging 
myriads of sea-fowl, which wing their screaming flight below. It is 
a scene which reminds one of the tales of the Norwegian coast, or 
what might be expected in Icelandic waters or among the Hebrides. 

The western shore extends in a series of these cliffs, twenty miles 
with no accessible entrance from the sea ; but on the eastern shore 
are several villages lying within pleasant coves ; smaller islands lie 
scattered in the sea off shore upon this side. 

Near the northern head, called Bishop’s Head, from a rocky figure, 
rising boldly out of the sea off shore, and named “ The Bishop,” 
are two hotels and some private boarding-houses. In this neighbor- 



SOUTHERN HEAD, GRAND MANAN. 





SEA COAST RESORTS. 33 

hood is Swallow-tail Head, upon which the lighthouse stands, sur¬ 
rounded by cliffs deeply scarred by the action of the waves. 

Whale Cove opens delightful features, around it tower gigantic 
cliffs displaying a variety of formations ; at one place brilliant with 
varied hues, and in another regular strata are piled up in consecutive 
layers, commonly called the “ Seven Days’ Work.” The beaches at 
the foot of the cliffs show gay-colored pebbles. 

It is a land of wonderment, and presents, especially during and 
following a storm, marine views unsurpassed in their grandeur. 
There are good facilities for fishing and shooting. The roads of the 
island are excellent; good horses for driving can be had at moderate 
prices, and the same may be said of boats and boatmen. 

It is a land which should be visited by ail lovers of the sublime 
in Nature, and may be taken in as a side trip with the other Passa- 
maquoddy resorts in the ocean voyage eastward. 


ST. ANDREWS. 

“And the pale health-seeker findeth there 
The wine of life in its pleasant air. ” 

This couplet might well have been written of the charming new- 
old summer-resort, St. Andrews-by-the-sea ; old, dating back far 
beyond its early settlement by the sturdy Loyalists, who fled from 
America upon the Declaration of Independence, issued by the colo¬ 
nies, and who founded upon the long peninsula extending far into 
the bay, this quaint old town, whose streets laid out by Deputy John 
Jones, surveyor for the Crown, in 1784, are the earliest example of 
the Philadelphia checkerboard plan on record, consisting of avenues 
of a uniform length and fifty to eighty feet wide, crossing at right 
angles and dividing the town into sixty blocks, each three hundred 
and twenty feet square. 

Old again in its reminiscences of its sturdy Loyalist fore-fathers, 
who, leaving the “ States ” during and immediately following their 
rebellion against the Crown, brought to this quiet border town their 
families and flocks, with, in some cases, their homes also, in proof 
of which there are houses now standing in St. Andrews whose frames 
were brought from Castine by their Loyalist owners, and set up anew 
beneath the Crown. 

Within the English church of the town rests, conspicuously dis¬ 
played, the royal coat-of-arms, brought by its staunch supporter, 
Parson Samuel Andrews, from the church at Wallingford, Connecti- 







TWO VIEWS AT PEMBROKE—DOUCHETT’S ISLAND — CHAMCOOK MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE. 

















































SEA COAST RESORTS. 


35 


cut, where, during the struggle for independence, he had earnestly 
prayed for the success of the English arms, and, caring not to live 
in the new republic, settled at St. Andrews, bringing the emblem of 
royalty with him. 

New St. Andrews boasts its fine hotel, “The Algonquin,” opened 
in June, 1889, to receive nearly 1,400 guests, its first season, and 
other improvements of the old town, which have made this sleeping- 
beauty of the seaside the ideal summer-resort. 

Few coast towns have a more favored location than St. Andrews. 
Long before it was thought of as a summer-resort, it enjoyed a cer¬ 
tain patronage from pleasure-seekers from Northern New Brunswick, 
and across the border. Its marked characteristics led to the forma¬ 
tion of the St. Andrews Land Co., who have, with their varied 
improvements, of which the new hotel and Indian Point Park are 
notable examples, made the old town to blossom like the rose. 

The hotel stands upon an eminence overlooking the town, and 150 
feet above sea level. From its broad piazzas an unobstructed view 
is had, disclosing the whole panorama of Passamaquoddy Bay, with 
the Chamcook Mountains, the St. Croix River and the distant shores 
of Nova Scotia for a background. 

Its guests enjoy a wonderful immunity from hay fever, that dis¬ 
tressing malady being unknown to the residents of the town, while 
the afflicted, even those who visit here at well-advanced stages of 
the disorder, find early and complete relief. 

It is pleasant to write of St. Andrews. To one who has visited it 
there is always much to recall with pleasure ; while with the ocean 
voyage from Boston, or from Portland to Eastport as an auxiliary, 
no better medicine can be recommended the tired brain-worker, or 
summer health and pleasure-seeker, than a sojourn at this Passama¬ 
quoddy resort. There are mountains for climbing, the Chamcooks, 
reached in a three-mile drive from the hotel, over roads which are 
perfection, and at their feet lie a chain of clear water lakes afford¬ 
ing fine trout fishing. Angling in both salt and fresh water may be 
enjoyed here with sure result. The yachtman finds a paradise, and 
the student of history his desire. There are possibilities for pleas¬ 
ure to suit every taste, coupled with a quiet restfulness of surround¬ 
ings which is itself a boon. 







CUTLER HARBOR, MAINE 




























CHAPTER VI. 


THE ST. CROIX RIVER AND SCHOODIC LAKES, THE SPORTSMAN’S PARADISE 

-A STORY OF 1604 -CALAIS AND ST. STEPHEN, 

THE GATE TO THE PROVINCES. 

TT IS the Frontier Steamboat Company, whose boats, connecting 
with the International steamers at the wharf of the latter com¬ 
pany at Eastport, cross the bay to St. Andrews and ascend the 
historic St. Croix to the river towns along its banks. It is thirteen 
miles to St. Andrews — thirteen miles of delightful sailing with the 
objective point in view, backed up by the Chamcook Mountains 
and other highlands of New Brunswick, which border the bay. 

After leaving the wharf at St. Andrews, the steamer rounds Joe’s 
Point and enters the St. Croix. This noble stream flows from the 
Chiputneticook, or Schoodic chain of lakes — lakes famous for their 
fishing and hunting opportunities — and forms, with the lakes above 
named, for a considerable distance the boundary line between the 
United States and Dominion of Canada. This is the region for 
famous game and fish —the home of the moose, deer and land-locked 
salmon. 

Ascending the St. Croix as far as Calais, a point we shall soon 
reach in description, which lies thirty miles up river from Eastport, 
a short railroad, the St. Croix & Penobscot, may be taken, which 
will bear the sportsman twice across the river and on to the village 
of Princeton at the very outlet of the Grand Lakes of Washington 
County, Maine, and into a game region of forest lake and stream. 

From Princeton a small steamboat runs up the lower lake to 
Grand Lake Stream, the outlet of Grand Lake, and the home of 
countless land-locked salmon of aldermanic proportions. On the 
lower lake there is a large village of Passamaquoddy Indians, whose 
young men make capital guides for the sportsmen entering this 
region. 

The townships here bear numbers as distinctive marks, settle¬ 
ments have not driven out the game, which here exists as in no 
other part of the State. The Maine Commissioner of Game and Fish 
has recently placed the number of deer “on the hoof” within his 

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38 INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 

territory at ten thousand, with a large ratio at home within these 
Washington County woods. The names of Grand Lake and Grand 
Lake Stream are a well-known and sufficient guarantee that the 
angler may here find Ultima Thule. 

Can a more delightful trip be planned by the sportsman than the 
ocean-voyage we have described, reaching Eastport in the early 
morning after twenty-four restful hours from Boston, and with the 
privilege of sojourn in Passamaquoddy if desired, or push on to this 
sportsman’s paradise by boat and rail same day ? 

But to return to the ascent of the St. Croix, from which we have 
been diverted by these sporting possibilities. Joe’s Point hides the 
town of St. Andrews, and the little steamer bears away up stream 
with Europe on the right and the border of America to the left. 
America presents the shores of Robbinston and reminds of the cur¬ 
rent border story of a cannon-ball dropped into St. Andrew’s sub¬ 
urbs upon the 4th of July, and returned upon the Queen’s Birthday. 
As the distance from town to town is three miles, this must resolve 
itself into popular fable, told for its border-poetic effect. In 
truth, there is only harmony between the two. 

Chamcook Mountains, upon the New Brunswick side, are soon 
passed, and Douchet’s Island appears in mid channel. Here descrip¬ 
tion must give way to historical incident, which must wake the dull¬ 
est fancy as one passes this small island, so long neutral territory, 
and which is fast disappearing before the flow of the stream, which 
must ere long remove this, the site of the earliest attempt at settle¬ 
ment in this part of the New World. Here is the story : 

By royal patent given by King Henry IV.—Henry of Navarre — 
and dated November 8, 1603, all the American territory between 
the fortieth and forty-sixth degree of north latitude was granted to 
his well-beloved friend Pierre de Gast, the Sieur Des Monts. 
“Acadia” was the name given to the grant — a name which still 
clings to the country and people : thus we have the Acadians,* and 
the towns of Tracadie, Shubenacadie and others in Nova Scotia. 

Des. Monts during the winter Secured and equipped two vessels, 
in which he and his party arrived the 6th of May, 1604, on the 
southerly side of the peninsula of Nova Scotia. Coasting the new 
country they entered the beautiful Annapolis basin, where, charmed 
with the spot, part of the expedition remained to found the ancient 
town of Port Royal,— now Annapolis, Nova Scotia. We shall see 
this town later on, and present a picture of the defences erected by 
this early colony. 


SEA COAST RESORTS. 


39 


Des Monts, with Samuel Champlain as pilot, set sail for fresh dis¬ 
coveries in the new acquisition. They explored the Bay of Fundy, 
and thence proceeded to the waters of Passamaquoddy, which they 
called a “ sea of salt water.” This was the first expedition to these 
waters. Passing through the outer fringe of islands, which stand 
guard as to-day, sheltering the calm within from the boisterous sea 
without, the ships crossed the bay, passing within pistol shot of the 
site of the present town of St. Andrews, and ascended the St. Croix, 
even as we now are, until arriving at a small island Champlain 
selected it as a suitable spot for defence, disembarked his forces 
and fortified it against encroachment from the Indians. 

He, geographer as well as pilot, describes it as “about three 
leagues in circuit,” and from the fact that immediately above small 
streams flowed crosswise to join the larger river, thus giving it the 
form of the Holy Cross, he named the island St. Croix, a name 
which has since descended to the river, while Douchet’s is the name 
the island bears. 

During the long boundary disputes this island was held as neutral 
ground and enjoyed all the rights and privileges of No Alan's Land, 
thus becoming a favored dueling resort. 

To-day it bears a light supported by the United States Govern¬ 
ment. Within the keeper’s house are many relics of the early set¬ 
tlement. 

Upon this island Des Monts chose to winter the expedition. The 
Indians were disposed to be friendly to the strangers, but of this the 
colonists were in doubt and took every precaution to guard against 
surprise. Prodigality in building their winter quarters had caused a 
dearth of wood, and as the long, cold winter of the northern climate 
progressed, the water courses were frozen and the men were forced 
to cross to the mainland for both wood and water. This they did 
under cover of the night and in constant fear of attack. 

To add to the horror of their situation a new and dread disease 
broke out among them. Thirty-six of the little band of ninety fell 
victims to scurvy before a remedy was found in a simple antiscor¬ 
butic— the boughs of the spruce steeped and drank. This was 
recommended by the Indians, and forms the earliest testimonial in 
favor of Spruce Beer. 

The bodies of their dead were carried at night to the mainland by 
their comrades and there buried. Fancy the feelings of these men 
in a new and unexplored country, in the midst of an unknown death, 
and surrounded by a dreaded forest foe ! 





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LAKE UTOPIA AND THE MAGAGUADAVIC. 

















































SEA COAST RESORTS. 


4 * 


Spring came at last to their relief, and, with the survivors, Des 
Monts set sail about the middle of May, 1605, southward in search 
of a warmer clime. They entered the Penobscot, discovered and 
named Mount Desert, and voyaged as far as Cape Cod ; there the 
search was abandoned and the ship returned to Port Royal. 

THE MAGAGUADAVIC RIVER AND LAKE UTOPIA. 

Let us return for a moment to Passamaquoddy before bidding it 
adieu. 

At a point some distance east pf the peninsula occupied by St. 
Andrews, the Magaguadavic River, a purely provincial stream, finds 
the sea also in Passamaquoddy Bay. It bears a strong part in the 
history of boundary disputes. For more than a century and a half 
following the attempted colonization at the island of the Holy Cross, 
this was practically a forgotten region. Meanwhile, other adven¬ 
turers from Catholic France had visited the Magaguadavic, and, as 
was the custom with discoveries from Catholic countries, had set up 
the cross at its mouth. From this incident the river became known 
as the St. Croix, and as such when confounded with the St. Croix of 
the Des Monts expedition, which was named as the boundary in the 
treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, at the 
close of the revolutionary struggle, caused the knot which required 
so much diplomacy to unravel. 

The river flows from a lake of the same name, near Magaguad¬ 
avic station on the New Brunswick Railway, and receives numerous 
affluents on its way to the sea. Its course is through rural New 
Brunswick, a country of fields and forests. 

Lake Utopia lies near the coast, where in early days the Indians 
had their homes and rallying-place. Curious relics of this aborig¬ 
inal people are from time to time unearthed. The overflow of its 
waters reach the Magaguadavic River through a natural canal and 
enter the bay at St. George, with a rush of waters known as the 
Falls of the Magaguadavic, a picturesque cascade well worth a visit. 

On the west shore of the lake rises a palisade of rock, a peculiarly 
beautiful red granite much sought in architectural adornment. 

Here the St. George Granite Company quarries from the everlast¬ 
ing hills fine building stone, and here we take leave of Passama¬ 
quoddy. 

CALAIS AND ST. STEPHEN. 

Leaving Douchet’s Island behind, the steamer ascends the St. 
Croix to the head of navigation, thirty miles above Eastport, where 


42 


INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 


are the two important points, the City of Calais, Maine, upon the 
left and the town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, upon the right 
bank. 

The American City of Calais is the largest and most important 
point in Eastern Maine, and St. Stephen the leading town on the 
Canadian side of the river. 

The prominent industry of both is the manufacture of lumber, 
for which the magnificent water power of the St. Croix affords 
unrivalled facilities, and the upper section on each side is known as 
Milltown. These places are connected by bridges, and, though 
under different national and local governments, have common inter¬ 
ests, and together constitute a large community, the most important 
center of commercial and industrial pursuits between the Penobscot 
and the St. John. Besides the flourishing lumber trade, each has 
also considerable shipping interests. At Milltown, on the Canadian 
side, stands a large cotton factory, erected principally by American 
capital and controlled by American management ; and at Red 
Beach, in the lower ward of Calais, are quarries which produce red 
granite, a beautiful building material, also widely used for monu¬ 
mental purposes. 

The sites of the two places, sloping upward on opposite shores, 
afford-fine locations for the homes, business places, and public build¬ 
ings of the prosperous people. Among them are the steeples of 
elegant church edifices, and excellent hotels accommodate the large 
travel which centers in the wide-awake community. 

There are interesting drives about the two towns, in the enjoy¬ 
ment of which the American visitor must be taught the unwritten 
law of provincial roads, which requires the driver to turn to the left 
in passing, the direct opposite to the rule of the road in the “ States,” 
but the correct thing, as it brings the drivers side by side, thus nar¬ 
rowing the possibility of collision. 

“ The rule of the road is a paradox quite, 

In driving your carriage along, 

If you keep to the left, you are sure to go right, 

If you keep to the right you go wrong. ” 

As this rule of the road is prevalent throughout the British Prov¬ 
inces, we give it here at the doorway. 

Both St. Stephens, at this point on the river, and St. Andrews at 
its mouth, present routes for reaching Northern Maine and New 
Brunswick points, being branch terminals of the New Brunswick 


SEA COAST RESORTS. 


43 


Railway. These branches join at Watt Junction, some twenty miles 
above the St. Croix, and afford the shortest route to the New Bruns¬ 
wick towns of McAdam, Magaguadavic, Canterbury, Benton, Debec 
and Woodstock, and the Maine town of Houlton. A continuation 
of the branch from Debec Junction strikes the main line of the road 
at Newburg, near Woodstock, reaching the Aroostook County 
(Maine) towns of Fort Fairfield, Caribou, and Presque Isle, as well 
as all Northern New Brunswick towns to the Madawaska River. 

But St. John forms the true gateway through which to reach all 
Provincial points, and to St. John the International steamers, from 
Eastport, next proceed to meet connections by rail over the New 
Brunswick and Intercolonial railways with all parts of the Old 
North-East. 



A VIEW IN DENNYSVILLE. 










GRAND FALLS, RIVER ST. JOHN. 






















CHAPTER VII. 


UP THE BAY OF FUNDY TO THE CHIEF CITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK-FALLS 

OF THE ST. JOHN RIVER-SPORT IN ABUNDANCE -r— • 

PRETTY FREDERICTON, ETC. 

TT IS a daylight sail through the British waters of the Bay of 
Fundy to St. John, the steamer keeping close to shore, allowing 
the New Brunswick coast to pass in moving panorama. Here and 
there a rocky cove appears, giving way to pretty bay and pebbly 
beach, inhabited as rude isolated cabin and tidy settlement indicates. 
As the steamer advances into the bay the interest deepens. 

Warner says : “The very name of Fundy is stimulating to the 
imagination amid the geographical wastes of youth. The young 
fancy reaches out to its tides with an enthusiasm that is given only 
to Fingal’s Cave and other pictorial wonders of the text-book. I 
am sure the district schools would become what they are not now if 
the geographers would make other parts of the globe as attractive 
as the sonorous Bay of Fundy.” 

ST. JOHN. 

After steaming eastward for three and one-half hours we enter 
the harbor of St. John, and approach the city. This harbor is deep 
and capacious. It lies upon the western and southern sides of the 
city, with Partridge Island, upon which are a light, signal and 
quarantine station, sheltering it from the sea. St. John is the mari¬ 
time city of the Maritime Provinces. Its wharves and docks are 
ever thronged with shipping, for vast quantities of lumber, the pro¬ 
duct of New Brunswick forests, are annually sent from this trade 
centre of the lower Provinces, which has become the fourth among 
the shipping ports of the world. 

The city is made up of the municipal district of St. John proper, 
the city of Portland and the suburb of Fairville, with but imaginary 
lines of division. All together they contain a population of fifty 
thousand. At its wharves the famous tides rise and fall thirty feet, 
seeming to produce a tempering effect on the summer atmosphere ; 
an oppressively warm day is of rare occurrence, the evenings and 

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nights being delightfully cool, and the air filled with “ the odor of 
brine from the ocean.” 

St. John is well provided with hotels, the Royal, the Dufferin and 
Victoria being examples, and being the chief city of New Bruns¬ 
wick, to it converge all rail and steam navigation lines of this 
“east countree.” 

Visitors to the city much enjoy the fine drives amid its surround¬ 
ings. One of these leads across the suspension bridge, and affords 
a fine view of the “ reversible cataract ” which exists where river 
meets sea. 

Think of the immense volume of water which the St. John River 
discharges into the sea, all emptied through a narrow rocky chasm 
but 500 feet wide. Just above the city the river expands into a 
broad bay with every intention of a quiet exit from its confining 
banks. But just above the city, where, at their narrowest point, 
two bridges have been built, one a foot and carriage suspension and 
the other a railroad cantilever, the waters are confined in a rugged 
gorge, through which they rush with the speed and power of a 
mill-race. Here occurs the fall. It is a peculiar fall, and the above 
term applied to it by an American humorist explains its peculiarity. 
At high tide the sea has a descent of fifteen feet into the river ; at 



THE BRIDGES, ST. JOHN, N. B. 


low tide the river has a like fall into the sea ; at half-tide all is 
serene, and the river may be navigated with safety. This is above 
St. John, and does not affect the seaward approach to the city. 

Of historical interest St. John possesses much. Near the bridges, 
upon the Carleton side of the harbor, one may see the ruins of Fort 













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La Tour, where was enacted the grandest drama of woman’s heroism 
ever enacted in the New World. Madame La Tour and her famous 
defence of the fort and garrison which occupied this spot will be 
remembered as long as Canada has a history. 

Then one must visit the Martello Tower — old stone towers are 
not so common that this can be overlooked — one of the ancient 
defences of the city, crowning the hill upon the harbor front, and 
climb the steep hill of Fort Howe, at the western extremity of the 
city, to obtain the bird’s-eye view of St. John, its environs and lively 
harbor scene, which is presented at its best from this point. 

Fort Howe now contains a. few antiquated cannon and dismantled 
barracks, but time was when it presented all the lively phases of an 
English garrison, and there remain many evidences of its military 
occupation. Notable troops were quartered here. The sunburned 
heroes of the Crimea ; soldiers, who had fought at Inkerman and 
in the trenches before Sebastopol, were quartered amid these quiet 
surroundings in ye olden time. 

St. John’s public and private buildings are, as a rule, of fine 
appearance, and the new passenger railway station used by the 
Intercolonial and New Brunswick roads is a model of modern taste 
and convenience. 

Altogether, St. John’s invitation may well be heeded, and a brief 
sojourn, at least, before farther journeying may be passed with 
pleasure and profit within her borders. 

This, then, forms the terminus of the International Line, three 
hundred and fifty miles from Boston, and as the steamers, finding 
a ready passenger list of provincial people and returning tourists, 
retrace the route to Boston, we are left at St. John to consider in 
which direction our pilgrimage shall now lead us. 

THE RIVER ST. JOHN. 

First let us consider the St. John River, its villages, towns, cities, 
and hunting and fishing resorts, reached by the New Brunswick 
Railway from St. John City. 

Rising in Northern Maine this noble stream, justly celebrated for 
its scenery, flows northward then toward the east forming for 
many miles the international boundary, until finally, with one grand 
sweep around the northern highlands, it begins its course of three 
hundred miles to the sea. It and its tributaries drain an immense 
area in Maine, New Brunswick and Quebec, reaching out to forest 
lakes through a timber growth which is yet a stranger to the woods- 


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THE UPPER ST. JOHN. 

man’s ax,e. Within these shaded wilds are large game and large fish, 
to test the nerve and skill of the sportsman. 

Along the main stream farm succeeds farm for miles, on either 
bank, interspersed by town and village of rural quiet. Its head 
waters penetrate the Province of Quebec, and approach the famous 
salmon streams Restigouche and Metapedia in the extreme northern 
part of New Brunswick. 

Its own tributary streams are famous for their fishing, such names 
as the Tobique, river and lake, and Temiscouata being again a sure 
guarantee of sport. The right of salmon fishing, on all the principal 
streams within the provinces, is held by lessees under its federal 
or local governments. Permission, to fish is usually granted to 
visitors by the lessees. Such as are or become vacant are sold 
at public auction at Fredericton, the capital. Further informa- 











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tion on this point can be obtained from the Crown-Land office, 
Fredericton. 

The tourist-sportsman must not from this infer that he is debarred 
from angling in these waters. Though some are sold there are 
riparian privileges enough for all without trespass, and the angler 
is sure to receive a thoroughly honest welcome. 

Above the Tobique numerous tributaries enter the St. John, which 
may be passed by the tourist, until Grand River, fourteen miles 
above the Grand Falls, is reached. Its station and telegraph office 
is St. Leonard’s. Grand River is not specially noted for its fishing, 
but is worthy of mention as a favorite way of reaching the Resti- 
gouche, the most famous of Canadian salmon rivers. 

Next above St. Leonard’s, and thirty-nine miles above Grand 
Falls, is Edmundston, the northern terminus of the New Brunswick 
Railway. It is prettily situated on rising ground at the confluence 
of the Madawaska and St. John. The little village boasts of little 
except its scenery, and the quaint customs and manners of its 
people. It contains a good hotel, and its chief claim to the sports¬ 
man’s consideration is that it forms the head-quarters for the great 
fishing trips to the upper St. John. 

Madawaska, Green River and Fish River enter the St. John in 
this vicinity ; the Madawaska from Lake Temiscouata in the Prov¬ 
ince of Quebec ; the Fish from Eagle Lakes in North Maine, and 
the Green from four lakes in Northern New Brunswick, which have 
not yet been supplied with names, but are termed 1st, 2d, 3d and 
4th. Possibly, the stock of names have run out among the myriad 
sheets of water which the section holds, and some future visitor 
may embalm his name or fancy for evermore by bestowing a cog¬ 
nomen upon these hidden lakes. 

Upon all the tributaries of the St. John above Grand Falls good 
trout-fishing may be enjoyed. At present, and until the projected 
government fishway is completed, salmon cannot ascend the falls. 
The .ordinary means of locomotion employed by sportsmen upon 
the rivers and lakes of Northern New Brunswick is the log canoe 
or peroigue. This will carry three persons, including the guide, and 
the camping outfit. French guides can be procured for a dollar a 
day. They will furnish the canoes, blankets for their own use, 
plates, etc. The sportsman must provide his tent, his personal outfit, 
and his provisions. 

Indian guides with bark canoes may be chosen at the visitor’s 
option, or batteaus for larger parties. Good guides can be obtained 


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at Andover, Grand Falls or Edmundston, without difficulty. It is 
not usually necessary to engage them in advance ; but, if requested, 
the hotel-keepers at any of the towns will arrange it. 

GRAND FALLS. 

Although not partaking in an eminent degree in the title of fish¬ 
ing resort, we cannot leave the St. John’s River without a reference 
to Grand Falls, which presents a variety of attractions in the 
grandeur of the cataract, the rugged sublimity of the gorge, the 
fury of the rapids, the rich coloring of the rocks, the lovely outlooks 
from its high hills, the charming drives, the strong pure air, the 
quaint customs of the French habitons , all combined to give the 
visitor pleasure. 

The old town, settled, as were many of its neighbors, by remnants 
of the exiled Acadian band, after long wanderings, has ever been 
a point of interest to the traveler. Even in the old stage days, 
when the nearest railroad station was seventy-five miles distant, the 
Falls attracted many visitors. In situation the town is bounded 
upon three sides by the river, which here makes an abrupt bend 
encompassing the town, which stands upon a horseshoe peninsula 
thus formed. It is laid out with mathematical regularity, and with 
refreshing regard for elbow-room. Broadway — in name and nature 
— runs through the center of the town ; at one end is the railway 
station, and at the other the falls. 

The river narrows as it reaches the cataract, and widens again to 
its original dimension, immediately after its passage of the tortuous 
course around the town. On either hand its banks rise into steep 
bluffs, one hundred and twenty-five feet high upon the west, and 
two hundred and fifty feet descent from town to river upon the 
eastern side. The cataract itself exceeds the anticipation, its 
plunge is seventy-five feet, and the distance from one side of the 
gorge to the other, in a straight line, is three hundred feet. Except 
in very dry summers there is an unbroken curtain of water from 
bank to bank, falling into a whirlpool of terrific power. Clouds of 
spray are ever drifting up from the abyss, moved this way and that 
with listless motion. This ofttimes at night produces a lunar bow 
which spans the fall, and, occasionally, will-o-the-wisps hover over 
the moist, mossy caverns. 

Of course, the fall is not without its romance of the Indian 
Maiden. This time, so says tradition, it was a daughter of the 
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had killed her father and brothers. Her captor planned a night 
descent upon her tribe, and she was directed to build a fire to mark 
the nearest point to the falls which could be safely approached by 
canoes. She built the fire on the rocks below the falls, and then, as 
a guarantee of good faith, led the foremost canoe of the advance. 
Straight for the light she steered. Closely the warriors followed ; 
over the falls the whole band sailed and none escaped. 

The points of interest about Grand Falls, apart from the fall 
itself, are the Gorge, which is ^panned by a suspension bridge 
affording a fine view down the Narrows, and “ The Wells,” within 
the Gorge, about midway between the Upper and Lower Basins. 
These wells are immense holes worn in the rock by the action of the 
water upon small stones. They occur in the vicinity of nearly all 
water-falls, but at the Grand Falls are exceptionally large. They 
form an interesting study to the geologist, as indeed do all the 
curious rock formations of the neighborhood. 

There is much of interest hereabout which warrants a longer 
description, but we must journey eastward. Such, then, is the St. 
John, a river teeming with beauty and with sport, whose grand 
natural attractions are supplemented in a high degree by the allur- 
ments of its forests, lakes and streams ; a river followed throughout 
almost its entire course by the New Brunswick Railway, and which 
is best and most advantageously reached by the ocean route from 
Boston, Portland or Passamaquoddy to St. John’s City, thence direct 
by rail, or to a connection with the rail route at Fredericton by 
steamers of the “Union Line,” plying the river daily between the 
seaport and capital. 

Leaving St. John, by crossing the cantilever bridge, the train 
loses the river at Westfield, a few miles out, to find it again at Fred¬ 
ericton, the capital of New Brunswick, situated upon the St. John some 
eighty-five miles by the river from the sea, and sixty-six miles by rail. 

Between the two cities the river is at its broadest and recalls an 
incident. During one old-time winter this long reach of water, 
then ice, was the scene of an interesting race between the teams of 
Lord North, who commanded the garrison at St. John, and Larry 
Stivers, a butcher of Fredericton, who had accepted his wager of 
^*500. Possibly the leader of the British Regulars found life a 
trifle dull in garrison at St. John after Crimean battles, and did this 
to stir up the monkeys for the time. 

Be that as it may, the race was run, with honors easy until near 
the finish, when one of Larry’s horses fell, and, before he could be 


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cleared, Lord North secured a lead which brought him in ahead. 
North refused to accept the wager, but, striking the butcher’s palm, 
exclaimed : “ Keep it, Larry ! You’re the only man in the province 
with courage to run that race.” So the story goes. 

A steamboat line now plies the river through the scene of the 
North-Stivers struggle from St. John to Fredericton. The “Union 
Line ” it is termed, and the visitor has to choose between it and the 
rail ride to Fredericton. 

Fredericton is beautifully situated upon a level plain, directly 
upon the St. John River, with New Brunswick hills surrounding. It 
is a pretty place and well worth a visit. As capital of the province 
it contains the Parliament Buildings and the Government House, 
within fine grounds ; a cathedral, normal school, and other structures 
of note, all tree-embowered by magnificent elms, planted with keen 
foresight by the city fathers of the past, to the enjoyment of the 
present generation. 

Tall elms and flower gardens are Fredericton’s specialties, to 
which must be added its suburban drives, which are numerous and 
very pleasing. One of these, “the old road,” discloses such exten¬ 
sive and beautiful vistas of scenery, wherever a break in the dense 
foliage occurs, that many tourists pronounce it unsurpassed. 

Leaving Fredericton, with its broad sweep of the river behind, 
we continue on through a series of inconsiderable towns to Wood- 
stock Junction and Newburgh. From the latter point a branch 
connects for Houlton, Maine, through Woodstock, while we con¬ 
tinue on in search of the famous salmon and trout streams of 
Northern New Brunswick 

After leaving the junction point at Newburgh, the road again 
strikes the St. John and follows it to its very head-waters. As the 
train skirts the river, which is in full view upon the left, it crosses 
numerous tributaries famous for their fishing as the Tobique, and 
others, which approach the Southwest Miramichi and Restigouche. 
There is this peculiarity about the New Brunswick rivers, they 
approach each other by serpentine windings, and by the myriad 
arms of their affluants, until it is possible to visit with canoe and 
paddle a great section of country, by “ carrying ” across the narrow 
intervening space. 

Thus, for example, one might leave the train of the New Bruns¬ 
wick Railway at Kent Station, and ascend the Shiktehawk, branch 
of the St. John to its almost juncture with the northwest branch of 
the Miramichi, and from thence descend that river through its famous 


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fishing and hunting-grounds, or, by a carry of two miles only, from 
the head of Salmon or Grand rivers ; other branches of the St. John 
reach the Restigouche itself. 

The same is true, in reverse, by the route of the Intercolonial 
Railway from St. John. This road crosses the heads of the bays, 
outlets of the Miramichi, Restigouche, and a host of others of only 
lesser note, and inlets for the salmon which have given the streams 
their noble reputation. 

From the bays one must now ascend these streams and carry to 
the affluants of the St. John. Both provincial lines of railway offer 
this peculiar facility to the sportsman.. For hundreds of miles numer¬ 
ous rivers, navigable to canoe and paddle, intersect the roads, and 
the tourist has but to choose from the many streams, and with the 
stream its most convenient station. 

To the sportsman then let us say : Here is a country of unlim¬ 
ited extent, which is open by such means as the above to anyone 
who can sit in a birch and ply a paddle ; here is game worthy of 
your rifle, and game-fish such as no other section of earth can boast. 

To reach this ultima thule , the water route from Boston to St. 
John is named, as adding novelty to the rail-ride from St. John. 
For the purpose of guiding the sporting fraternity to this region, we 
enter in detail the fishing-waters of New Brunswick. 



MOOSE HUNTING IN NOVA SCOTiA —"THE CALL.’' 












































CHAPTER VIII. 



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THE SALMON STREAMS OF NEW BRUNSWICK AND HOW TO REACH THEM 

-THE TOBIQUE, ITS LAKES AND MOUNTAINS- 

A VIEW FROM BALD HEAD. 

NE excellent salmon stream, the southwest 
Miramichi, is reached from Kent, a station 
One hundred and twenty-two miles from 
St. John on the NewBrunswick Railway. 
Anglers can suit their fancy or con¬ 
venience as to where they will pro¬ 
cure their outfit. Those who have 
the necessary appliances for camp¬ 
ing and sport will, of course, bring 
them, others can secure good outfits in St. John or Fredericton. 
Provisions for the trip should be purchased before leaving the towns 
for the forest. Sportsmen should bring their own tents if possible. 

Teams can be secured at Kent Station, which will bear the sports¬ 
man and outfit to the river, distant but fifteen miles. From the 
point where the road from the station strikes the southwest branch 
to Boisetown — upon .the main river — is sixty miles. From Boise- 
town the sportsman may choose the route by canoe and carry, or by 
road forty-five miles to Fredericton, or return the way he came. 

The best salmon-hole is at Burnt Hill, about twenty-five miles 
down stream from the point of embarkation. Other favorite places 
are the Clearwater Rocky Bend, Rocky Brook, and Three-mile 
Rapids. The salmon are not as large as those taken on the Resti- 
gouche, rarely reaching above twenty-five pounds in weight, but 
they are gamy and afford fine sport. One who succeeds in landing 
a specimen need not fear to tackle a forty-pounder. 

As an instance of the abundance of the fish in this stream comes 
the fact that twenty salmon have been taken by one angler in a 
single afternoon, while the same gentleman killed five full-grown 
salmon and hooked the sixth within an hour at the Rocky Bend. 

The Miramichi takes its rise some two hundred miles or more 
from the sea, near the St. John and its tributaries, and drains an 

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area equal to fully one quarter of the province. It is navigable from 
its mouth to large vessels for forty-six miles, and for canoes for many 
hundreds. It forms the grand sportman’s highway for reaching 
every quarter of a superb game region, where sport is unlimited 
amid moose, caribou, deer, bears, wolves, foxes, raccoons, loup-cer- 
viers and all the smaller animals of the forest, while game-fish may 
be killed from the canoe in passage. 

Both the New Brunswick and the Intercolonial railways offer 
routes, the first for reaching the headwaters of the tributary rivers 
to the Miramichi, and the latter crossing- the parent stream, where, 
at its entrance to the great bay of the same name, are situated the 
towns of New Castle and Chatham. New Castle is a good point of 
departure for the upper river. 

m THE TOBIQUE. 

Twenty miles above Kent Station the two New Brunswick towns 
of Perth and Andover lie upon opposite banks of the river St. John, 
and midway between enters the Tobique. 

Andover, New Brunswick, a pretty rural village, is its railway and 
telegraph station. At Andover the sportsman should stop for a time 
to secure a guide and canoe. These can be hired at the Indian 
village, which stands just above the junction of the two streams. 

This tributary of the St. John is named by travelers the most 
picturesque stream in America, while an additional attraction lies in 
the fact that it affords excellent fishing. It is a great spawning 
ground for salmon, and the trout in its waters are legion. From its 
mouth to Nictaux,— the Forks,— is about sixty-three miles. Here 
the river divides into three branches, each some fifty miles long, 
all meeting at the Forks in one deep pool, wherein one may see 
great salmon swimming, and the encircling trees cast their shadow 
and image upon the water. 

The entrance to the Tobique from the St. John is tame, but a mile 
farther on perpendicular walls of rock raise their heads on either 
shore. Here occur “ The Narrows,” a striking bit of scenery. They 
are one-half miles long, from fifty to one hundred feet wide, the 
walls rising in some places one hundred to one hundred and fifty 
feet in height. 

The river widens out above The Narrows, and in its windings 
presents a wonderful variety of scene. Twenty-eight miles above 
the St. John is the great Plaster Cliff, an enormous deposit of red 
sandstone. It has a frontage on the river for half a mile, and rises 


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to a height of one hundred and thirty-five feet. The cliff presents 
the appearance of an enormous ruin as one’s canoe floats by at 
night. Twelve miles farther on is Blue Mountain Bend. The Blue 
Mountains, upon the right in ascending, have an elevation of sixteen 
hundred feet above the sea, and add to the beauty of the Tobique. 
Ten miles above, Bald Head rises twenty-two hundred feet, and 
terminates in almost a complete cone, its summit having about half 
the area of an ordinary railway car. It can be ascended on its 
northern and western sides only ; on the south and east it towers 
nearly perpendicularly for one thousand feet. It rises from a 
valley approached by a forest road, affording never-to-be-forgotten 
glimpses of its rugged summit. 

Many sportsmen voyaging the Tobique leave the river to climb Bald 
Head, lured by the extended view obtainable from its summit, which 
includes in its far-reaching sweep one hundred miles of the winding 
course of the river. Distant mountains, among them famous Katahdin 
in Northern Maine, and millions of acres of New Brunswick wilds. 

The fishing thus far has been good in point of numbers, but the 
fish are not large. It is necessary to know where to angle, but the 
guides can tell you. The Indian guides of the Tobique are trusty 
fellows, strong and active in their canoes, wonderfully adept with 
the salmon-spear, and zealous for their patrons’ comfort. 

Famous fishing may be enjoyed about the Forks, while of the 
streams into which the river divides at this point the left-hand 
branch, called the Little Tobique, is best for trout. The right-hand 
branch, or Campbell River, is a favorite resort for salmon, while the 
Mamozekel, or central branch, is not remarkable for its fish. 

It is a singular fact that salmon will only go to the right-hand 
branch, and white-fish only to the left-hand branch. One-half mile 
from Nictaux, on the left-hand branch, is the celebrated White-fish 
Hole. There is usually good trout-fishing there. 

From its forks following the deviating streams to the right and 
left,— no one ascends the central branch for sport,— brings one to 
the lakes which form the sources of the Tobique. Ascend the 
Little Tobique,— it is best for trout-fishing — you will find its source 
in Little Tobique Lake, a pretty sheet of water noted for its big 
trout, between which and Lake Nepisiquit, the source of the river 
of same name, exists a carry of but three miles. The river Nep¬ 
isiquit flows in an entirely opposite direction from the Tobique, and, 
crossing the Province, finds the sea in the Baie Des Chaleurs, an 
arm of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 


CHAPTER IX. 


TO THE NORTHERN PROVINCES AND THE FAR-FAMED RESTIGOUCHE- 

THE CLEAR WATERS OF THE METAPEDIA- 

PROVINCIAL GAME LAWS. 

T 3 ETURNING once more to St. John as the distributing point 
for travel east and north, to the iiniu*s ot t ie province of 
New Brunswick, to Nova Scotia, and to Prince Edward Island, and 
the island of Cape Breton, the tourist now embarks upon the great 
steel highway of the Intercolonial Railway. 

From St. John to Sussex, a distance of forty-four miles, the coun¬ 
try bordering the line is well settled and abounds in beautiful vil¬ 
lages. The Kennebaccasis River here flows close beside the tracks 
for several miles, the hills rising on the distant shore in picturesque 
beauty. As Riverside is reached, one of the finest racing-waters on 
the continent is brought to view. This is the scene of many notable 
aquatic contests. Here it was that the renowned Paris and Tyne 
crews struggled for victory one autumn morning years ago, when 
James Renforth, champion oarsman of England, fell from the Eng¬ 
lish boat, and was carried to the shore to die. Rothesay, nine miles 
above the city, contains many handsome villas, the summer houses 
of St. John business men and others. Their ornamental trees and 
carefully arranged grounds have a very pleasing effect. Next 
Hampton is in great repute as a summer resort with the people of 
St. John, and then Sussex, one of the rising towns of the province. 
Sussex is situated in the prolific Kennebaccasis Valley, and has some 
of the most famous of the New Brunswick farms. Some fair trout¬ 
fishing is to be had in this vicinity, as numerous lakes lie within 
easy distance from the village. Petitcodiac and Salisbury lead 
on to Moncton, the centre from which the busy operations of the 
Intercolonial system are controlled. Moncton is essentially a rail¬ 
way town ; it contains the general offices and the shops of the com¬ 
pany, and has a population of about five thousand. Here is the 
Petitcodiac River, which empties into Shepody Bay, the very head 
of the Bay of Fundy ; it is a continuation of the bay itself as far as 
Moncton, up which the waters of Fundy ascend with a “bore,” 

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which, to be more explicit, means an advancing wall of water six 
feet and more in height. This is worth seeing, and worth respecting, 
too, if you are out in a boat and don’t know how to manage it. At 
Moncton diverging lines of rail reach Point Du Chene, whence 
steamers cross the Northumberland Straits to Prince Edward 
Island, while rail lines run down the great peninsula of Nova Scotia 
to Halifax, and other points which we shall reach later in description. 
Now, we journey northward over the long line of the Intercolonial 
Northern Division, which reaches Point Levi, opposite the ancient 
city of Quebec. 

From Moncton to the Miramichi, the railway passes through a 
country which presents no particular attraction to the eye. It is so far 
from the shore that none of its flourishing settlements are seen. The 
traveler for this reason is apt to acquire a poor idea of the country 
There is, however, a fine farming and fishing district all along the coast 
and some large rivers, of which the head waters only are crossed. 

At Newcastle the Miramichi River is crossed, and at Chatham 
Junction, passed just before reaching the river, a branch railway 
runs to Chatham-town, a few miles to the eastward. 

One whose time is limited need not wander far from Chatham or 
Newcastle to find abundant sport. He is in a country whose annual 
export of salmon and bass is something incredible. Rod fishing 
may be had in any direction. There are, for special points, the 
Little Southwest and Renous rivers with their many lakes, some of 
which have never been fully explored. Wherever in these streams 
there exists a high bank upon one side and a low beach upon the 
other, will be found a pool in which salmon will be sure to resort. 
The Ox Bow, on the Little Southwest, is a favorite spot for anglers. 
The Main Northwest is a particularly good stream. These are 
branches of the Miramichi, a name which is synonymous with 
sport. Continue on to Bathurst, on the Baie Des Chaleurs ; this is 
one of the best laid out towns in the province, and a particularly 
pleasant spot, both for residents and visitors. There are numerous 
pleasant drives following river roads, taking in the falls of the Tete- 
a-Gauche or Fairy River, seven miles from town, and the rough 
waters of the Nepisiquit on the return. For falls, however, there is 
nothing in the vicinity to equal the Grand Falls of the Nepisquit, 
twenty-one miles distant. There are two pitches, the total descent 
being 105 feet, and the grandeur of the rocky heights by which the 
river is overlooked, requires a personal inspection to form a true 
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This is a great region for salmon and trout. The former are 
taken in the Nepisiquit as far as the Grand Falls. At the Rough 
Water, seven miles from Bathurst, they are particularly plenty, but 
good pools may be found all along the river ; caribou and bears 
abound in the forest and plains through which we have come from 
Newcastle to Bathurst. Partridges are plenty in all parts of the 
country, and fly across the path of the traveler on every highway. 
The country is wild enough to suit all purposes of sport, you can 
drop a line in any stream and something will rise to it, while skill 
with the rifle will bring proud trophies from these forest retreats. 
Guides are easily obtained in all this immense preserve, and are reli¬ 
able men, who add much to the pleasure of the outing, relieving the 
sportsman of all care of the camp and equipage, as well as point¬ 
ing out to their patron the favorite haunts of game. Much the 
same aspect of country is presented from Bathurst northward, ex¬ 
cepting that in all the distance one obtains amphibious glances of 
the sea as the rails skirt the shore of the great Baie Des Chaleurs. 
This far northern inlet from the Gulf of St. Lawrence is ninety miles 


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long, from fifteen to twenty miles broad, and bears neither rock nor 
hindrance to the safe passage of the largest ships. It presents a 
famous yachting course, and is renowned for its salt water fishing ; 
all of the numerous rivers which flow into the bay are good fishing 
streams ; sea trout abound in the estuaries and brook trout in the 
waters above The Restigouche and Metapedia. But it is at the 
head of this bay, the Baie Des Chaleurs, that the grand culmination 
of salmon streams is reached in the Restigouche and Metapedia 
names which are graven deep upon the hearts of all true anglers! 
Here huge forty-pound salmon lurk to test the sportsman’s skill. 
It was a Restigouche salmon which tipped the scale at fifty-four 
pounds, and numbers have been caught weighing forty-eight 
pounds each. Salmon fishing commences about the middle of May, 
and all the rivers abound with the great and glorious fish. 

At Metapedia Station, on the Intercolonial, the Restigouche is 
crossed by the trains where the river is spanned by a beautiful rail¬ 
way bridge, over one thousand feet in length. In the flat-iron 
caused by the junction of the two rivers, Metapedia and Restigouche, 
which interesting event occurs just below the station, stands the club¬ 
house of the Restigouche Salmon Club, a most advantageous site. 

Never were better facilities offered for the thorough enjoyment 
of sport than here, and hundreds of Anglers and Knights of the 
Rifle annually enjoy the hospitality of the club-houses, if they are 
unfortunate in not being club-members themselves. The house is 
close beside the railway station, its broad veranda fronting to the 
same as if to welcome the coming and speed the parting guest. 

Should one wish for the ideal wilderness, let him ascend this great 
river to its source, some two hundred miles away, or retire through 
some of its tributary arteries into the wilds of New Brunswick, 
hunting, fishing and camping to their meeting with other offshoots 
of the Tobique or St. John. 

THE “PORTAGE.” HEADWATERS OF THE RESTIGOUCHE. 

The Restigouche forms part way the boundary between the 
Provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec. The river’s course is 
most erratic, and with its arms produces, on paper, the appearance 
of a many limbed tree trunk, but then, the same is characteristic of 
all rivers in these provinces. Numerous lakes, as the Temiscouata 
and Squatook, may be reached through these forest avenues,— 
indeed, the by-paths are innumerable, as streams run in every direc¬ 
tion. All of them are safe for canoe navigation, so safe, indeed, 




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that ladies with proper escort have ascended the St. John, crossed 
the narrow carry to the Restigouche and reverse. 

METAPEDIA : LAKE AND RIVER. 

A beautiful sheet of water is Lake Metapedia, the noblest sheet 
of inland water along the route. It lies among the highlands which 
border the River St. Lawrence, is sixteen miles in length and in 
parts reaches a width of five miles. Upon its clear waters the canoe 
of the sportsman glides through scenes elysian. Embosomed on its 
surface are islands rich in verdure, while the shores are luxuriantly 
decked with summer foliage. 

The outlet of the lake is the famous Metapedia River, winding 
its way in graceful curves through its rich valley to the meeting with 
the Restigouche, and then the sea. 

If the clear waters of the lake were — and they justly are — noted 
for their salmon, so too the river partakes of the honors. It has 222 
rapids, great and small, fierce and wild, or gently rippling over beds 
of shining gravel. Salmon of the largest size are numerous, and 
here and there lurk those abnormally large fish, the killing of which 
with light fly-rod requires so much of skill and endurance, a pleasure 
long drawn out. 

Space forbids our devoting too much of that valued article to the 
hunting and fishing resorts of New Brunswick, in a description 
which is to include the whole eastern country from St. John to the 
Atlantic. Consequently, with a few pointers concerning the game 
laws and restrictions, required by the Provincial Government, we 
shall leave what remains for the tourist to find for himself. 

The regulations of the department allow of fly fishing for salmon 
from the 30th of April to the 31st of August in Quebec, and from 
the 1st of March to the 15th of September in New Brunswick. In 
Nova Scotia (which we shall consider later, but not make a specialty 
of its fishing and hunting, preferring to generalize here,) the best 
salmon rivers are on the Atlantic Coast, though* some which were 
formerly good have been “ fished-out,” or obstructed by dams. 
Where good fish-ways have been put in, the streams are not injured, 
but some of the old ways seem adapted for almost any purpose 
rather than the p’assage of salmon. One river, which does not empty 
on the Atlantic Coast, deserves mention. It is the Shubenacadie, 
on which some fine sport has been had, and will doubtless be had in 
the future. Salmon cannot be fished for in the rivers to the west¬ 
ward of Halifax between the 31st of July and the 1st of March, nor 




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in the other rivers between the 15th of August and the 1st of March. 
None of the rivers of Nova Scotia are leased. 

Trout are abundant in all the lakes, rivers and estuaries along the 
line of railway, and the fishing is a free one. The close season is 
from the 1st of October to the 1st of January. The seih trout found 
in the estuaries are fine fish, and, though abundant in very many 
places, they are found in their perfection in the Tabusintac and 
Escuminac. They are greedy biters, and, it is said, will take almost 
any kind of'fly. The arms of the sea are numerous estuaries on the 
Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia, are particularly good places for these 
fish, which find their feeding-grounds among the sand flats and the 
bars and among the beds of sea-weed in shoal water. June and July 
are the best months for seeking them, though they may be found at 
all seasons. They are a very gamy fish, handsome in appearance 
and excellent eating. 


PROVINCIAL GAME LAWS. 

The Lower Provinces afford the best opportunities for moose and 
caribou hunting. The country lying back of the rivers on the 
northeast shore of New Brunswick, and the forests of Cumberland, 
Colchester, Halifax and Guysboro, in Nova Scotia, will give all the 
sport desired. Moose may now be killed in the Province of Quebec, 
after a long prohibitory season which came off September 1, 1888. 
The close season now is from the 1st of February to the 1st of Sep¬ 
tember. Caribou can also be killed in Quebec, and the season is 
the one last mentioned. The penalty for violation is from $5 to 
$20. The close season for partridge is from the 1st of January to 
the 15th of September ; for woodcock, snipe, etc., from the 1st of 
February to the 1st of September ; and for geese and ducks from 
the 15th of April to the 1st of September. An hour before and after 
sunset are also set apart for the protection of snipe, woodcock, 
ducks and geese. Non-residents are required to take out a hunting 
license, the cost of which is $20, and the penalty for the non-com¬ 
pliance is double the amount of the fee. 

In New Brunswick, the close season for moose, caribou and deer, 
is from the 1st of February to the 1st of August. The penalty is a 
fine of from $10 to $60. Hunting with dogs is forbidden, under a 
penalty of $20, and any person may kill dogs which are chasing, or 
can be proved to have chased, such game. Three moose, five 
caribou or five deer, are allowed to be killed by each party in any 
one season. The flesh of such game must be carried out of the 




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woods within ten days after the killing, with the exception of such 
as is killed during the latter part of December, when the flesh must 
be carried out within the first five days of January. The close 
season for partridge is from the ist of March to the twentieth of 
September ; for woodcock and snipe, to the 14th of August. Non¬ 
residents are required to take out a license, the cost of which is the 
same as in Quebec. 

In Nova Scotia the close season for moose and caribou is from 
the ist of February to the 15th of September. No one person is 
allowed to take more than two moose and four caribou in any one 
year or season. The flesh is to be carried out of the woods within 
ten days after killing, and game killed during the latter part of Jan¬ 
uary shall be carried out during the first five days of February. The 
penalty for the violation of these provisions is from $30 to $50, and 
a fine of $25 is imposed for hunting with dogs. The close season 
for partridge is between the first days of January and October, and 
that of woodcock, snipe and teal between the first days of March 
and August. Woodcock must not be killed before sunrise or after 
sunset. Blue-winged duck must not be taken between the first days 
of April and August. The annual licenses for non-residents expire 
on the ist of August. They cost $30 each. 

The foregoing are some of the provisions of the Game Laws of 
the three provinces. There are other provisions, in regard to trap¬ 
ping, using nets for wild fowl, hunting with artificial lights, etc., but 
as no sportsman will resort to such practices, these provisions need 
not be quoted. 












CHAPTER X. 


PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AND CAPE BRETON-THE GARDEN OF THE 

MARITIME PROVINCES-THE BRAS D’OR LAKES- 

A RELIC OF THE LAST CENTURY. 

13 ERCHANCE our excursion is an idle holiday, spent in search 
of the picturesque and entertaining rather than in the pursuit 
of piscatorial pleasures, or sport with the rifle. With those objects 
in view we turn eastward from Moncton, the junction point, and 
journey toward Prince Edward Island, named in honor of the Duke 
of Kent. It is but a matter of ten miles from Moncton to Point 
DuChene, where we embark upon the Prince Edward Island Steam- 
Navigation Company’s boat for Summerside. Steamers leave Point 
Du Chene every day of the week, Sundays excepted, about 2 P. M., 
or after arrival of the morning train from St. John. From Summer- 
side they connect with the Prince Edward Island Railway, which 
now extends the entire length of the isle, for Charlottetown, the 
capital, and by far the. largest city, and for numerous other points in 
this quaint section of the western hemisphere. 

A perfect garden is this island, as the visitor who has seen its 
vast reaches of green fields, without a rock or cliff or withered pas¬ 
ture to mar the view, is willing to attest. Indeed, it is an admitted 
fact that Prince Edward Island has more good land, in proportion to 
its size, than any part of the Maritime Provinces. It grows amaz¬ 
ingly large potatoes and surprisingly heavy oats, quantities of which 
are exported each season, reaching, many of them, the United 
States, thus showing how remarkably cheap can crops be raised in 
this far eastern garden spot to yield a profit in competition to our 
own broad fields. This is the paradise of the farmer and nature- 
lover. The excellence of the hay crop will capture the one, no 
starveling fields, but broad, level acres of the strongest grass, 
mingled with clover, or waving in masses as dense as a field of 
wheat, with the full heads of timothy or of herdsgrass. The latter 
must bend to the potatoes, an unpoetic subject, but beautiful when 
they are out with their white blossoms above green foliage, in well 
kept rows which stretch away until lost in perspective, and all 

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assumes the mass or bank of white and green. Distance lends not 
to the view upon the island. The railway has a way of its own for 
winding in and about the hills, rather distracting to those who are 
accustomed to air lines, but adding much to the enjoyment of 
the trip, as bringing all parts and conditions of the country into 
view. 

We land at Summerside. Summerside is pleasantly situated, has 
a fine harbor with numerous pleasant islands of its own. A jour¬ 
ney of but a mile or two, a pleasant morning walk from your hotel 
will take one to Malpeque Bay, upon the opposite side of the island, 
from Summerside. It is one of the curious features of Prince Ed¬ 
ward’s that although from point to point of its extremity it is nearly 
thirty-five miles wide at its broadest, there are three places where 
there is but a mile or two between the waters. Summerside and 
Charlottetown lie to the left and right centre of its two hundred miles 
in length, with myriad smaller towns stretching away to the extremi¬ 
ties in all directions, for the island is thickly populated. Great 
indenting bays, as the one occupied by Charlottetown, the capital, 
extend far inland from the sea producing all the accompaniment of 
shore scenery, peninsulas, capes, coves and shingly beach. So deep 
are these indentions that a little digging at three strategic points 
would divide the one island into four. 

One writer has said “ O, for perpetual summer to make Prince 
Edward Island the paradise of the globe ! ” 

Unfortunately, the northern climate conspires to balk that wish, 
for during seven months of the year Jack Frost is abroad in the 
land. He not only binds the fields and orchards, but lays violent 
hands upon the Northumberland Straits as well and for the period, 
November to May, this mighty arm of the gulf is closed to naviga¬ 
tion. 

Then it is that extraordinary means are employed in the delivery 
of mails and passengers en route to and from Prince Edward Island 
and the mainland. The old route between Point Du Chene and 
Summerside is abandoned now, while between Cape Tormentine, 
New Brunswick, and Cape Traverse, upon the island, the two nearest 
approaching points, is run the ice-boat. Between the two points is 
nine miles, part solid ice, part drifting ice, part water and sometimes 
a great deal of broken ice from the pack. The ice-boat is a strongly- 
built water-boat, in charge of trusty men who well understand the 
difficulties of the task before them. Each man is secured to the 
boat by a strap passing over his shoulder. 


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So long as there is any foot-hold upon the ice they shove or drag 
the boat along, when water is encountered, they embark to pass it. 
Thus sometimes up to the waist in the icy water, but safely held by 
the straps, they accomplish the journey. There is nothing like it in 
the ordinary experiences of the traveler ; it furnishes him food for 
reflection and for incident for many a long hour. It is an odd man¬ 
ner of journeying, but it is the only sure method of communication 
between the island and the outside world during the winter season. 

Charlottetown, the capital, contains ten thousand souls — about 
one-third the population of the entire island. These people for the 
most part live in the low wooden houses which are ranged along 
broad regular streets. 

Fine buildings Charlottetown can boast of few ; building material 
is a scarce article in a country having no stones. That for the gov¬ 
ernment houses, a brown sandstone, being brought at great expense 
from New Brunswick. But if stones are dear, provisions are won¬ 
derfully cheap. In this respect the entire island is a veritable land 
of plenty. 

Salmon, in its season, can be purchased for five cents a pound. 
Cod, and other salt water denizens of that ilk, are not worth the 
preliminary of weighing, but go in the lump. Fresh mackerel at 30 
cents a dozen, and lobsters at a cent and a half each, are some of 
the items on the bill of fare. Roast beef at ten cents per pound, 
and mutton half that sum. Chickens, thirty cents per pair. Eggs, 
twelve cents per dozen. Butter fifteen, cheese five cents per pound, 
— truly, this is the land o’erflowing with milk and honey; the 
haven for many a tourist of limited means, in search of a dry, health¬ 
ful climate, quiet entertainment, good food and plenty of it, at a 
nominal cost; he cannot do better than visit Prince Edward’s Island, 
whose shores themselves are a novelty,— another “ Emerald Isle ” 
thrust out into the Atlantic, and whose people, their manners and 
customs form a distinctive interesting study. Hospitality reigns 
supreme, and upon any part of the island the belated traveler is 
assured a welcome, with excellent bed and board until the morrow, 
with hosts who would feel aggrieved by proffered pay. 

Nowhere within the same distance from Boston, — giving that 
point as the “ Hub ” of the Universe — can be found a spot of equal 
interest to the idle vacation-wanderer, or a tour which can introduce 
so much of novelty, rest and recreation. (Sport, too, for good trout 
and salmon fishing may be had, with wild-fowl shooting galore), 
as this voyage eastward to St. John, the rail journey to Point Du 


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Chene, the passage of the straits, and finally the wandering at will 
about the sea-girt, verdure-covered island can offer. 

The possibilities for a round-about route, taking in other attrac¬ 
tions upon the return, are great. For one may, instead of retracing 
the route via Summerside and Point Du Chene, leave the island at 
Charlottetown, crossing by steamer to Pictou on the Nova Scotia 
shore of the mainland. We are now upon the true peninsula of 
Nova Scotia, in reaching which, without the tour of Prince Edward’s 
Islands, the route is from Moncton — the junction point to which 
we first came from St. John — by rail of the Intercolonial through 
Painsic Junction, where the detour was made to Point Du Chene, 
the point of embarkation for the island ; Sackville, the port-station 
of the ice-boats between the capes, Hopewell, Spring Hill, with its 
branch to Parrsboro ; Londonderry and Truro. 

Truro is the junction point for Halifax, needless to name as the 
metropolis of Nova Scotia. Here the main fine of the railway tips 
sharply down to the Atlantic, while the Pictou branch turns in the 
opposite direction to find us just landed from the Prince Edward 
Island boat, or steaming down over the intervening eleven miles 
from Pictou Wharf to meet the train from Moncton,— and through 
Moncton St. John, at New Glasgow. 

CAPE BRETON ISLAND. 

This is the point to which we have been leading, a country vying 
in interest with the last, and eminently worthy of a place beside it 
in this chapter. 

From New Glasgow a rail line called the Eastern Extension, 
which name, by the way, is no misnomer, runs to Port Mulgrave 
on the famous Strait of Canso. It is a short run, some ninety miles 
at best from the Pictou Wharf to Pirates Harbor on the Strait, 
through Antigonish called the prettiest village in Eastern Nova 
Scotia. Its neat, tidy buildings stand amid beautiful shade trees, 
and then its people ! If you want to find a type of able-bodied 
men make your selection at random from the brawny Scots who go 
to make up the population of Eastern Nova Scotia, and especially 
Antigonish. 

The word Antigonish means Big Fish River ; the fishing, how¬ 
ever, does not warrant the title. There are other towns passed by 
the traveler en route to Cape Breton but none which call for special 
remark, except Tracadie where there is a splendid view of the gulf. 
Here also is a Trappist Monastery, and an Indian Reservation. 


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After leaving Tracadie the train steams down the narrowing 
shores of Nova Scotia to the Strait of Canso — or Canseau — and the 
through passengers are taken by the train to Port Mulgrave, the 
deep water terminus to embark upon the boat for the Island of Cape 
Breton. 

This narrow strait, some fourteen miles long and one mile in 
width, forms the great highway between the Gulf of St. Lawrence 
and the Atlantic. As a natural consequence when the extensive 
commerce between the two is narrowed down to these confining 
walls the waters of the strait are thronged by steam and sail, adding 
to the natural beauty of the spot the charm of breezy life,— an 
animated picture. The passage of Canso is soon made, and Port 
Hawkesbury reached, upon the Cape Breton side. Here the traveler 
can take steamer, which makes daily connections with trains, and 



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lands passengers at the head of East Bay, ten miles from Sydney at 
the eastern extremity of the island, through the celebrated Bras 
D’Or — The Arm of Gold. 

This imprisoned sea, one hundred miles long and from ten rods to 
ten miles wide, divides the island of Cape Breton into two parts. 
For about fifty miles its waters are sheltered from the ocean, of 
which it forms a part, and in this length it expands into bays, inlets 
and romantic havens, with islands, peninsulas, and broken lines of 
coast, combining all to please. 

High mountains and cliffs tower above the lake on every hand, 
at many points rising sheer from the water, casting their shadows 
down through the clear depths. Again rising in the distance, and 
with intervening fertile valleys between it and the lake showing the 
white cottages of the farming and fisher folks who make home of 
this far eastern country. 

Cape Breton is rich in geological wonders. Its coal deposits, 
which underlie much of the island, and are supposed to extend, in 
one continuous vein one hundred and fifty miles long to the mines 
of Pictou in Nova Scotia, are inexhaustible, and crop out in divers 
out-of-the-way places. Dig a few feet below the surface in almost 
any place upon the island and your reward will be a rich seam of 
coal. Many families have a natural coal bin in the cellar, provided 
when the continent was making. Fossils rare and curious are com¬ 
mon upon the shores of Cape Breton in the coal strata, and wrenched 
therefrom by the sea. The Professor might secure a wonderful 
addition to his cabinet from this vicinity. 

BRAS D’OR LAKE. 

In the passage of the Bras D’Or another notable geological 
formation is brought to view, where far off to the eastward glisten 
in the sunlight the heights of the Marble Mountain. Its product is 
a very fair white marble, which has not been extensively quarried, 
coal being more in the line of trade. 

We pass through the Bras D’Or to the towns which lie upon the 
seaward side of the isle. They are Sydney-old-town, noted for its 
coal mines, whose vast sunless depths extend for two miles under the 
ocean, and for its fine piers, from which are shipped annually 
immense quantities of Sydney coal, known wherever coal is burned, 
from the field which is estimated to contain a thousand million 
tons, not to include seams less than four feet in thickness, nor the 
vast quantities which lie under the sea between the islands of Cape 


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Breton and Newfoundland. North Sydney is of more commercial 
importance than the old town. Within its harbor gather vessels of 
every class. It is a famous coaling station for ocean steamers, and 
a right, lively little port. 

Between Cape North and Cape St. Lawrence, upon the far north¬ 
ern extremity of the island, an ocean cable is landed in Aspy Bay 
and operated at North Sydney. It is but fifty miles from the North 
Cape to the Magdelen Islands, the cruising ground of the cod-fishing 
fleet to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Baddeck is another 
famous old town at the head of Ste. Ann’s Bay, reached by steamer 
from Sydney. A few hours’ journey from Baddeck will take one 
into a country where moose and caribou are plenty, and where the 
sportsman may either camp-out in the wilderness, or make his head¬ 
quarters with some one of the well-to-do farmers of Inverness or 
Victoria county’s occasional settlements. 

THE RUINS OF LOUISBURG. 

South of, and reached by narrow-gauge rail from Sydney, is Louis- 
burg, on the Atlantic shore, where, upon the maps, it presents the 
appearance of being ever ready to drop off into space. 

The Louisburg of to-day has a population of about one thousand 
souls, and is situated just across the harbor from the old fortified 
town which bears so important a part in history. The railroad fare 
from Sydney is but 75 cents, and all visitors to the island of Cape 
Breton should make the trip. The Louisburg Land Company’s 
hotel affords fine accommodations and the site of old Louisburg 
may be easily reached and the lines of its old fortifications traced. 

Nearly a century has elapsed since the fall of Louisburg, and 
nothing remains to mark this stronghold of the French in America, 
save the relics of a structure which cost the treasury of Louis XV. 
thirty millions of livres, and the labor of twenty-five years to erect. 
Its walls of stone, which made a circuit of two and one half miles, 
were thirty-six feet in height, and of a uniform thickness of forty 
feet. Fifteen thousand people were gathered in and about these 
walls ; six thousand troops were locked within this fortress when 
the gate-key turned in the mammoth lock. 

The foundations of the town were laid in the early part of the 
last century, just after the death of Louis XIV., and named in honor 
of the departed monarch. Nova Scotia proper had been granted 
here and there to adventurous would-be colonists and their leaders, 
but the ancient island Cape Breton still owed allegiance to the 


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THE RUINS OF LOUISBURG. 


lilies of France. Of all the harbors which the island bore, this was 
selected as the most advantageous, and here was built the city which 
was designed to be the key to the Western Hemisphere. 

“ It was environed,” says Belknap, “ two miles and a half in circum¬ 
ference, with a rampart of stone from thirty to thirty-six feet high, 
and a ditch eight feet wide. There were six bastions and batteries, 
containing embrasures for one hundred and forty-eight cannon. 
On an island at the entrance of the harbor was planted a battery of 
thirty cannon, carrying twenty-eight-pound shot, and at the bottom 
of the harbor was a grand, or royal battery, of twenty-eight cannon, 
forty-two pounders, and two eighteen pounders. On a high cliff 
opposite the island-battery stood a light-house, and within this point, 
secure from all winds, was a careening wharf and a magazine of 
naval stores.” 

The entrance to the town was over a drawbridge, spanning the 
moat, near which was a circular battery mounting sixteen fourteen- 
pounder guns, and yet, with all their show of arms, Louisburg, the 
naval depot of France in America, the nucleus of its military power, the 
protector of its fisheries, the Sebastopol of the New World, fell 
before the undisciplined troops of the colonies of Massachusetts, 
Connecticut and New Hampshire, led by William Pepperel, a fish 
and shingle merchant of Maine. 

In three years after its capture by the colonial troops Louisburg 
was restored to the French by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. Ten 
years passed and a'greater fleet, a more numerous army and heavier 







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armament besieged its almost impregnable walls, when, in 1758, the 
English under Amherst, Boscawen and Wolfe gathered no less than 
twenty-three ships of war, eighteen frigates, and sixteen thousand 
land forces, with a proportionable train of cannons and mortars, 
against the city. It fell after a two months’ storm of fire and iron, 
of rocket, shot, and shell — fell, and the lilies of France waved over 
Louisburg no more. 

Possessed a second time of the fortress city, and the conquest of 
Canada achieved, England’s edict went forth that Louisburg should 
be destroyed. It required two years and the aid of gunpowder to 
complete the work of demolition, but in the end it was thoroughly 
done and the once proud city, which had borne a monarch’s title, 
sank into a shapeless ruin. 

To-day, the tourist stands amid the theatre of such events and 
with his opened history marks the scene of struggle. Here lay the 
frigates of Louis ; opposite, where the parapets of stone are yet 
visible, was the grand battery of forty guns. There the great sev¬ 
enty-four blew up. This ground has shuddered day and night for 
continued weeks at the roar of battle ; and here are we, summer 
travellers from the busy marts of trade, day-dreaming in this bit of 
Europe in America. 

Prince Edward’s Island and Cape Breton together form an attrac¬ 
tive page in the summer literature of the northeast. Many of their 
points and features must necessarily be omitted in the brief chapter 
devoted to them in the descriptive of the whole Maritime Provinces ; 
and it is with the hope that the little which has been said will create a 
desire for a personal visit, that we leave their island shores for the 
lower peninsula of Nova Scotia. 























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CHAPTER XI. 


THE LOWER PENINSULA OF NOVA SCOTIA-HALIFAX, THE METROPOLIS 

OF THE PROVINCE AND ITS FORTIFICATIONS-THE 

ANNAPOLIS VALLEY-YARMOUTH. 

TO REACH Halifax, and through it the “ Land of Evangeline ” 
by the rail-route, we take the diverging line from Truro, which 
has before been referred to as tipping abruptly down the peninsula 
of Nova Scotia, and follow through fertile fields and upland inter¬ 
vale, a transition, indeed, from the rugged scenery of Cape Breton, 
until this fine farming district is lost amid the desolate rocks which 
abound, to the exclusion of all other crops, at Windsor Junction 
fourteen miles from Halifax. 

At this point the Windsor and Annapolis Railway forms a junction 
with the Intercolonial and “ all change ” for the run down the 
Annapolis Valley to Annapolis, on the famous “ Basin.” It is 
twelve miles, by steamer through the Basin to Digby, where another 
line, the Western Counties Railway, leads to Yarmouth at the 
extreme of the peninsula, and the veritable jumping-off place of oft 
quotation. 

Both the Windsor and Annapolis, and Western Counties roads 
skirt the Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia, linking its towns to 
the exclusion of the Atlantic coast-line, which has its only railway 
point in Halifax. After leaving Windsor Junction the approach to 
the city of Halifax is along the shores of the famous Bedford Basin, 
upon which the city is situated — a noble marine view which deepens 
in interest as the train nears the journey’s end. 

Halifax, from the very nature of its position, the most eastern 
city of its size upon the western hemisphere, is, in name, familiar to 
all Americans, and is oftener in the mouths of man,— as a mild sort 
of invective,— than many a western metropolis. 

One could go farther, however, and fare worse than being con¬ 
signed to Halifax, for this is the most thoroughly British City on 
the continent, and, as such, holds much of interest to the American 
tourist. It is a garrison town as well as a naval station, and one 
meets in the streets the regulation Red-Coats and Blue-Jackets at 
every turn. Everything suggesting impending hostilities, “ the pomp 

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and circumstance of glorious war,” encounters the peaceful tourist 
upon street-corners, while the citadel towers upon the summit of the 
hill-city of Halifax. 

Let us climb this hill, and from the great stone fortress look out 
over the broad bay 256 feet below. 

Like nearly all large cities upon the seaboard, the site of Halifax 
is a peninsula, with the sea upon the east and west. To the south 
and east is the harbor, which narrows as it. reaches the upper end 
of the city and expands again into Bedford Basin, which affords ten 
miles of safe anchorage. The approach to the city is strongly for¬ 
tified, as well becomes this British stronghold. 

View from the citadel the magnificent bay, where vessels, flying 
every flag which protects a floating commerce, are at anchor. Let 
your vision extend over the islands to the wide ocean beyond, 
bounded only by the horizon’s line. Turn to the scene presented 
inland, where stretch away vast verdant plains dotted with settle¬ 
ments and cottages, with now and then glimpses of blue water, and 
you will return to the town below, fairly impressed with Halifax 
and its surroundings. 

The fortifications upon McNab’s and George’s Islands, as well as 
the various forts around the shore, are all well worth a visit after the 
citadel. Visitors are readliy allowed to inspect the works, but 
sketches or pencil notes of the defences will not be permitted by 
the authorities. After a visit the tourist will have no doubts of the 
exceeding strength of Halifax over all the cities of America. 

Hospitality is a virtue particularly grateful to the stranger tourist, 
and hospitality abounds among the good people of Halifax, even 
for the rebellious Yankee, in spite of the Loyalist forefathers of the 
city. The hotels afford fine accommodations, with plenty of solid 
accompaniments — the viands of Merry England, specialties partaken 
of so generously by the characters of Dickens — which give an appe¬ 
tite on the reading merely of those delightful spreads — washed down 
by generous portions of right good H’inglish H’ale. 

Livery outfits, for the many delightful drives out and about the 
city, are procurable at modest rates of hire, and boats of every 
description for the exploration of the Bedford Basin may always be 
had. 

There is much to be seen inside the city. The Province Build- 
ings, new and old; the Museum, the Public Gardens, the Fish- 
Market, and the many public institutions, all open to inspection and 
all worthy a visit. Halifax has direct rail and steamship connection 


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for all parts of the world, and marks the point of shortest ocean 
passage between America and Europe. It is the port of call for 
many lines crossing the Atlantic, and without delay one may go to 
Liverpool, Glasgow, the West Indies, New York, Boston, Portland, 
Newfoundland, or Quebec. If you desire a sea voyage, choose ! 

THE PENINSULA OF NOVA SCOTIA. 

Bordering the Atlantic, from Yarmouth upon the south to Halifax 
in the centre and beyond to the Strait of Canso, a rugged coast line 
with deep bays, numerous peninsulas and islands, receives the almost 
mid-ocean waves. It is a wild shore, where fishing is extensively 
carried on, the numerous arms of the sea admirably suiting the 
occupation of the people. These coast settlements are linked with 
Halifax by water-routes, the rail is yet to come. 

Back from the^coast line the country abounds with heavy forests, 
and is abundantly watered by lakes and streams. Moose and caribou 
roam these forest wilds, and may be found within easy distance from 
the settlements. The fishing is excellent, and from June to Septem¬ 
ber the catch of sea trout and salmon cannot fail to satisfy all. 

For the Bay of Fundy shores, the upper part of the Peninsula of 
Nova Scotia, about Annapolis, Digby, the Basin of Minas, Blomi- 
don, Grand Pre, and other points so closely woven in the verse of 
that American classic, “ Evangeline ; ” such distinctive features 
exist, and so much of interest centres, that we take leave of the 
provinces for a time at Halifax to once more approach by the 
Direct Line of the International Steamship Company from Boston 
to the “ Land of Evangeline,” an uninterrupted ocean voyage of 
three hundred miles. 





CHAPTER XII. 


THE DIRECT LINE FROM BOSTON TO DIGBY, ANNAPOLIS, AND THE LAND 
OF EVANGELINE — ADVANTAGES OF A CHOICE OF ROUTES 
-THE END OF GRAND PR^. 

HP HE reader must not infer, from the fact that a special feature 
^ is made of The Direct Route from Boston to Digby, or 
that a separate line is maintained, that this is the only route for 
reaching that Garden of the Provinces, the Annapolis Valley. 
Steamer City of Monticello leaves St. John, in connection with 
the route we have been following, at 7.25 A. M. each day of the 
week, (except Sunday and Tuesday); crossing the Bay of Fundy, 
to Annapolis and Digby, there to meet trains of the Windsor and 
Annapolis, and Western Counties railways running north and south 
on the peninsula. 

The advantages of The Direct Route, however, are numerous, 
which, to those who wish the sea-coast ocean voyage without the 
calls at Portland, Passamaquoddy and St. John harbors, will readily 
commend it. 

It is the only line between Boston and Nova Scotia running a 
side-wheel steamer, elegantly fitted and furnished, combining luxury 
and comfort, obtainable only on this class of steamboats. 

The passage of the steamer from the Bay of Fundy into the 
Annapolis Basin, is through the narrow Digby Strait, with a range 
of high hills upon either side. The whole coast from Brier Island, 
at the southern entrance of the Bay of Fundy, to Blomidon on the 
Basin of Minas, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles, is pro¬ 
tected by these rocky barriers, which here divide in a narrow water¬ 
way. After passing the strait this arm of the sea broadens into the 
great land-locked basin ; a peculiarity of these provincial seas, as 
witness the Bedford Basin at Halifax, the Strait of Canso, and 
numerous others of less note. The first stop of the steamer is at 
Digby, then on to Annapolis, twelve miles distant, and about mid¬ 
way the beautiful inland sea. The steamboat journey between the 
two towns is full of interest. 


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ANNAPOLIS ROYAL. 

This is the oldest European settlement in America, north of the 
Gulf of Mexico. It was the ancient capital of Acadia. We have 
noted it before as the first landing place of the Des Monts expedi¬ 
tion in 1604, who afterward visited Passamaquoddy, passing the 
luckless winter on Douchet’s Island in the St. Croix. The town was 
then Port Royal ; changed a century later after the English con¬ 
quest, to Annapolis in honor of their queen. The early settlement 
was farther down shore than the present town, but all about is his¬ 
toric ground. Where now all is peace and beauty, the blast of wars 
great organs rent the sky, in the early days of conquest, when the 
roses of England supplanted the lilies of France in the possession of 
these shores. Port Royal has shared the fate of Louisburg and 
other Acadian strongholds, and its fort has become a ruin. 

It is here, at Annapolis, that we take the train through “the 
Valley,” to the historic ground about the Basin of Minas. A valley, 
indeed, and in every sense of the word. It lies between the South 
Mountain range and the North Mountains which guard the coast 
line. Along its entire length, and directly through its centre extend 
the rails of the Windsor & Annapolis Railway, for mile after mile 
passing vast orchards, white with apple blossoms, or laden with 
tempting fruit. The finest of orchards, fair farms, and fertile fields 
stretching away to the mountain borders. Such is the landscape. 
The air is fragrant with growing crops, and the eye never wearies 
with the charmingly rural scene. 

BLOMIDON, N. S. 

At the farther end of the valley, seventy miles from Annapolis, 
lies the tragic theatre of events which has given us Evangeline 
Here are the idyllic meadows of Grand Pre, protected from the sea 
by dikes, erected by the sturdy French peasantry of long ago. 
Yonder Blomidon rises from the sea, silent guardian over the Basin 
of Minas, which curving inland, one magnificent crescent of sixty 
miles depth, bathes the Grand Prairies of Acadian Land. Here lived 
and loved, one hundred and fifty years ago, a simple people in a 
state of rural felicity which seems inconsistent with the frailties and 
passions of human nature. Among them real misery was unknown, 
and benevolence anticipated the demands of poverty. Every mis¬ 
fortune was relieved before it could be felt, without ostentation, and 
without meanness. It was a society of brethren, every individual 
of which was ready to give, and to receive, what he thought the 


SEA COAST RESORTS. 8$ 

common right of mankind. In 1755 the colony numbered a popula¬ 
tion of eighteen thousand souls. 

Here, at the Gaspereau’s mouth, on the shores of the Basin of 
. Minas, was situated the village of Grand Pre. Ascend some one of 
the many elevations of the Gaspereau and look to-day upon the scene. 

A summer pastoral, rich meadow lands, dikes in the distance, and 
detached cottages in place of the hundreds of thatched roofs which 
once covered the exiled Acadians. Few fraces remain of the old 
French village ; the dikes still shut out the sea, and the road taken 
by the exiles on their sad way to the King’s ships, may still be fol¬ 
lowed by the tourist; other than this — 

“Not but tradition remains, of the beautiful village of Grand Pre.” 

Assuming that the reader is by this time surfeited with description 
of sea and shore, highland and lowland scenery, which must at best 
employ many stereotyped phrases, let us escape for a time to 
relate 

THE STORY OF THE ACADIANS. 

By the treaty of Aix La Chapelle, Cape Breton was ceded to the 
French and Nova Scotia to the English. The French colonists in 
the Annapolis Valley had taken the oath of fidelity to the English 
Crown, but they refused to take the oath of allegiance which forced 
them to bear arms against their countrymen and the Indians, who 
had always been their firm friends. 

This stand was particularly distasteful to the English colonists of 
New England and Nova Scotia who were engaged in the fierce 
border wars with the allied French and Indians, and their “ sullen 
neutrality ” was considered just cause of offence. 

Accordingly, a new oath of allegiance was tendered by King 
George II., by which all Acadians were required to become loyal 
subjects of the British Crown, and as such to bear arms against the 
allied forces of countrymen and friends. 

The people revolted, and three hundred of the younger and braver 
among them took up arms against their oppressors. At the fort of 
Beau Sejour the little band made their gallant stand, and were 
defeated. In vain the majority protested that this act of the few 
was contrary to their wishes, contrary to their peaceful habits, and 
beyond their control. The whole Acadian people were by this rash 
act placed under the ban. 

The edict went forth. All were to be transported from their homes 
and fertile fields, banished, dispersed among the various British 


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INTERNA TIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 


colonies to the south. To carry out this plan, five transports, and 
a force of New England troops were dispatched to the Basin of 
Minas. Arrived there a proclamation, so ambiguous in its nature as 
to give no hint of its object, was issued to the people of the district 
of Grand Pre ; it read as follows : — 

To the inhabitants of the District of Grand Pre', Minas, River 
Canard, etc., as well ancient, as young men and lads : 

“ Whereas, his Excellency, the Governor, has instructed us of his 
late resolution, respecting the matter proposed to the inhabitants, 
and has ordered us to communicate the same in person, his Excel¬ 
lency being desirous that each of them should be fully satisfied of 
his Majesty’s intentions, which he has also ordered us to communi¬ 
cate to you, such as they have been given to him. We therefore 
order and strictly enjoin, by these presents, all of the inhabitants, as 
well of the above-named District, as of all other districts, both old 
men and young men, as well as all the lads of ten years of age, to 
attend at the church of Grand Pre on Friday, the fifth instant, at 
three of the clock in the afternoon, that we may impart to them 
what we are ordered to communicate to them, declaring that no 
excuse will be admitted on any pretense whatever, on pain of for¬ 
feiting goods and chattels, in default of real estate. Given at Grand 
Pre, second of September, 1755, and twenty-ninth of his Majesty’s 
reign. JOHN WINSLOW, 

Colonel Commanding.” 

Four hundred and eighteen able-bodied men heeded the summons. 
These were shut into the church, and Colonel Winslow, placing him¬ 
self with his officers in the centre, addressed them. 

You have read the remainder in Longfellow’s version of the tale. 
“ The poor people, unconscious of any crime, petitioned Colonel 
Winslow for leave to visit their families, and entreated him to detain 
a part only of the prisoners as hostages, urging with tears and 
prayers their intention to fulfill their promise of returning after 
taking leave of their kindred and consoling them in their distress 
and misfortune. The answer of Colonel Winslow to this petition 
was to grant leave of absence to twenty only for a single day. This 
sentence they bore with fortitude and resignation, but when the 
hour of embarkation arrived, in which they were to part with their 
friends and relatives without a hope of ever seeing them again, and 
to be dispersed among strangers, whose language, customs, and 
religion were opposed to their own, the weakness of their human 
nature prevailed, and they were overpowered with a sense of their 


SEA COAST RESORTS. 


85 


miseries. The young men were first ordered to go on board one of 
the vessels. This they instantly and peremptorily refused to do, 
declaring that they would not leave their parents, but expressing a 
willingness to comply with the order, provided they were permitted 
to embark with their families. The request was rejected, and the 
troops ordered to fix bayonets and advance toward the prisoners, a 
motion which had the effect of producing obedience on the part of 
the young men, who forthwith commenced their march. The road 
from the chapel to the shore — just one mile in length — was 
crowded with women and children, who, on their knees, greeted 
them as they passed with their tears and their blessings, while the 
prisoners advanced with slow and reluctant steps, weeping, praying, 
and singing hymns. This detachment was followed by the seniors, 
who passed through the same scene of sorrow and distress. In this 
manner was the whole male part of the population of the District of 
Minas put on board the five transports stationed in the river Gas- 
pereau, and thus were the remainder of the 18,000 Acadians sent 
into a similar exile. Who has not followed them in fancy, and 
through the beautiful verse of Evangeline. 

Turn now to a more pleasing subject, the beautiful valley which 
they left. The author of “ Sparrowgrass Papers”—old-timers will 
remember them with pleasure — says in description of the Maritime 
Provinces : 

“ Much as we may admire the various bays and lakes, the inlets, 
promontories, and straits, the mountains and woodlands of this rare 
corner of creation — and, compared with it, we can boast of no 
scenery so beautiful — the Valley of Grand Pre transcends all the 
rest in the Province. Only our valley of Wyoming may match it, 
both in beauty and tradition. One has its Gertrude, the other its 
Evangeline. But Campbell never saw Wyoming. Longfellow never 
visited the Basin of Minas.” 

It is true the poet never visited the scene which his verse has made 
famous. It is said he feared his high ideal would become wrecked 
upon reality ; but he had no need; he would have missed the forest 
primeval, but in all else the scene is in keeping with his fancy. 

GRANDE FINALE. 

“ This is Acadia — this the land 

That weary souls have sighed for ; 

This is Acadia, this the land 
Heroic hearts have died for: 

Yet, strange to tell, this promised land 
Has never been applied for ! ” 




86 INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 

Thus says an old song, to which we must take exception in its 
final line. It has been, and is, applied for by an ever-increasing 
number of summer tourists who have found that here can the great¬ 
est amount of enjoyment and recreation be had at a moderate cost. 
The very idea of the old song explains the chief charm which the 
Provinces hold for summer sojourners from “ The States.” It is 
Acadia — fresh, rural, pastoral. The same conditions exist, among 
its rural types, as fifty years ago. Its very season is an oddity to 
the American guest, who may again enjoy the “ garden truck ” 
fruits and flowers of spring and early summer by a mid-summer trip 
to Acadia. 

Phenomenally moderate — though not cheap in one sense of the 
word,— are all the accompaniments to thorough enjoyment of an 
outing passed beneath provincial skies. Hotel rates are low, and 
carriage hire does not deplete the pocket-book to an extent which 
renders that delightful pastime a thing to be indulged in sparingly. 
Good guides may be had in all hunting and fishing regions, at “ a 
dollar a day and found.” Canoes and boats are plenty, while sail and 
steam are ready at every point of vantage to aid the tourist-traveler. 

When these are coupled with cool, bracing air, clear skies, and 
delightful scenery, in a country colored by history and filled with the 
interest of tradition, song, and story, where every prospect is new, 
and delightfully foreign to an American mind and fancy, it is not 
wonderful that the old song becomes inapplicable to one of the 
finest vacation regions extant. 











LOCAL PASSENGER FARES. 


ONE WAY AND RETURN. 


FROM BOSTON. 


ONE WAY. RETURN. 


Boston to Annapolis, N. S.,.direct, . 


$5. °° 

$8.00 

“ “ “ “ via St. John, 


5 - 5 o 

10.00 

“ “ Calais, Me., .... 


4 - 5 ° 

8.00 

“ “ Digby, N. S., direct, 


4 - 5 ° 

7.00 

“ “ “ “ via St. John, 


5.00 

10.00 

“ “ Eastport, Me., 


4.00 

7 - 5 o 

“ “ Portland, Me., 


1.00 

2.00 

“ “ Robbinston, Me., 


4 - 5 ° 

8.00 

“ “St. Andrews, N. B., 


4 - 5 ° 

8.00 

“ “ St. John, N. B., 


4 - 5 ° 

8.00 

FROM PORTLAND. 



Portland to Annapolis, N. S., via St. John, 


$5.00 

$0.00 

“ “ Calais, Me., .... 


4.00 

7.00 

“ “ Digby, N. S., ... 


4 - 5 ° 

9.00 

“ “ Eastport, Me., 


3 - 5 o 

6.50 

“ “ Robbinston, Me., . 


4.00 

7.00 

“ “St. Andrews, N. B., 


4.00 

7.00 

“ “ St. John, N. B., 


4.00 

7.00 

FROM OTHER 

POINTS. 



Calais to St. John, N. B., 

• 

$1.50 

$2.50 

Robbinston to St. John, N. B., 

. 

1.50 

2.50 

St. Andrews to St. John, N. B., 

. 

1.50 

2.50 

Eastport to St. John, N. B., 


1.50 

2.25 


[giiPThe above one-way rates are for limited tickets. Unlimited tickets are sold 
at an advance. Return tickets are good during the year in which they are pur¬ 
chased. 


CONNECTIONS FOR GASPE AND BAIE DE CHALEUR. 


Steamer “ Admiral ” will leave Dalhousie on Wednesday and Saturday morn¬ 
ings for Gaspe. Returning from Gaspe Thursday and Monday mornings. 

At Pictou, connections made with Steamer Seaver for Magdalene Islands, 
Georgetown, and Souris, P. E. I. 

Steamers of the Prince Edward Island Navigation Company connect daily to 
and from Pt. du Chene and Pictou with trains of the Intercolonial Railway. 

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Passenger Fares by way of Boston and Nova Scotia 

DIRECT LINE;. 


Between Boston and 

Un- 

limi’d 

Lim¬ 

ited. 

Re¬ 

turn. 

Between Boston and 

Un- 

limi’d 

Lim¬ 

ited. 

Annapolis.N. S. 

Dip'bv. 44 

$5.00 

4-5o 

6.70 

5.80 


$8.00 
7-50 
11.60 
10.10 

Kingston.N. S. 

Lawrencetown. “ 

$5-55 

5.20 
8.50 
6.25 

5- 35 
7.60 

7.20 
5.10 

6- 45 


Avonport. “ 

Aylesford. “ 

Rarrinpton ... ... 11 

$7.00 

6 -95 

7.00 

Liverpool. .. “ 

Meteghan. “ 

Middleton. “ 

$7.00 

5.00 

Beaver Bank. " 

Bedford. “ 

Berwick.. “ 

7-85 

8.00 

5- 95 
5.00 
7.00 
6.10 
6.15 
7-30 

6- 75 
6.50 
8.00 
6-75 
6.50 
6.25 

13-50 

14.00 

10.35 

9.00 

Mount Uniacke. “ 

Newport. “ 

Paradise .. “ 

6.95 

6-75 

Bridgetown. “ 

Caledonia. “ 

6.00 

Port Williams. “ 

Pubnico. “ 

6.50 

Cambridge. “ 

10.60 

10.75 

12.65 

12.00 

n-45 
14.00 
11.85 
11 50 
11.00 

Round Hill. “ 

5.00 

Coldbrook. “ 


Shelburne. “ 

8.00 

5.00 

Ellershouse. “ 

Falmouth. “ 

Grand Pr6. “ 

6-75 

Waterville. “ 

Weymouth. “ 

Wilmot. “ 

6.00 

5-45 

7-os 

8.00 

6.50 

Halifax. “ 

Hantsport. “ 

Horton Landing. “ 

Kentville. “ 

7.00 

Windsor. “ 

Windsor Junction.... “ 

Wolfville. “ 

Yarmouth. 41 

6.50 

7.00 

5.00 






Re¬ 

turn. 


$9 75 
9-25 


9 50 
i3-!5 
12.50 
9. IO 
11.20 


8.75 


10.50 


9-55 

12.00 

I3-50 

II.30 

9.00 


ISF* Fares by this Line are $1.00 less than any other route to the Annapolis Valley. 


GENERAL INFORMATION TO PASSENGERS. 


RETURN TICKETS are on sale to all principal points, and a large saving is made by pur¬ 
chasing the same. All return tickets entitle the passenger to stop-over privileges. 

STATE-ROOMS AND MEALS.—Rooms may be engaged in advance upon application by 
letter or telegram to the local agents of the Company. State-room berths are not sold 
by this Company. Rooms are $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 each. There are also several bridal- 
rooms on each steamer, varying in price from $3.00 to $4.00. Meals are served on the 
American plan, at the following price : Breakfast or supper, 50 cents ; dinner, 75 cents. 

CHILDREN’S TICKETS.—Children between the ages of five and twelve, half-fare; under 
five, free. 

OPTIONAL TICK ETS.— All tickets reading between Boston and St. John will be accepted 
between Boston and Annapolis direct. Passengers holding tickets reading by the direct 
line between Boston and Annapolis may travel by way of St.John by the payment of 
$1.25 to the purser of the first steamer to whom the ticket is presented. This arrange¬ 
ment will apply to tickets reading from as well as to Nova Scotia, allowing passengers 
to vary their trips. 

REDEMPTION OF TICK ETS.—In the purchase of tickets, passengers are reminded that any 
portion of a ticket not used will be redeemed at its value at the Boston wharf agency, 
either by mail or upon personal application. This will apply to tickets issued by this 
Company over its connections as well as over its own lines. 

STEAMERS’ LANDINGS.— From Boston, the steamers of the St. John line leave the south 
side of Commercial Wharf, and the steamers of the direct Nova Scotia line leave the 
north side of the same pier. At Portland, the steamers leave Railroad Wharf, foot of 
State Street. At Eastport, the steamers of the International S. S. Co., the Campobello 
steamer, and the St. Croix River steamer for St. Andrews, Robbinston, and Calais land 
at same pier. At St. John, the Company’s pier is at Reed’s Point. 

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TARIFF OK RATES 

SUBJECT TO SLIGHT CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE. 


DESTINATION. 


^MHERST, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Andover, N. B. 

do. and Return. 

Annapolis, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Antigonish, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Auburn, Me. (M. C. R. R.) .. 
do. (G. T. R’y). 

Augusta, Me. 

Aylesford, N. S. 

do. and Retm-n. 

gADDECK, C. B. 

do. and Return. 

Bangor, Me. 

Bar Harbor, Me. 

Bath, Me.. 

Bathurst, N. B. 

do. and Return., 

Beaver Bank. 

Berwick, N. S.. 

do. and Return., 

Bethel, Me. . . 

Bethlehem, N. H. 

Bridgetown, N. S. 

do. and Return.. 

Brunswick, Me. 

£ALAIS, Me..... 

do. and Return.. 

Caledonia Corner, N. S. 

Cambridge, N. S. 


and Return. 


B. 


and Return. 


B. 


and Return. 


do. 

Cambellton, N. 
do. 

Campobello, N. 
do. 

Caribou, N. B. (via St. John), 
do. and Return. 

Charlottetown, P. E. I.. 

do. and, Return., 

Chatham, N. B....... 

do. and Return., 

Crawford House, N. H. 

Cutler, Me. 

do. and Return.. 

£)ALHOUSIE, N. B. 

do. and Return.. 

Digby, N. S. 

do. and Return.. 

Dorchester, N. B. 

do. and Return.. 

Jh ASTPORT, Me. 

do. and Return.. 

Ellershouse, N. S. 


do. 


and Return. 


From Boston. 


Unlimited, 


$ 8.25 

1 3 - 65 

8.80 

14- 45 

6.00 

10.00 
io-75 
17.40 
2.00 
2.00 
3.00 
7-30 
12.10 
i 3 - 5 o 

22.60 

5-25 

4- 5° 

2 . 2 5 

9-5° 

15- 5° 

8.70 

7-45 

12.35 

3.80 

5- 5o 

6. 50 

11.00 
2.00 

5-5o 

8.00 

8.50 

7.60 
12.60 
10.50 
17.00 

5-25 
8.00 
9-50 
r 5-5° 
9-5o 

16.25 
9.00 

* 4-75 

4.25 

5.00 

7-50 

10.25 
16.80 

6.00 

10.00 

7.70 

12.85 

5.00 

7-5o 

8.80 

14.65 


Limited, 


5-50 


IO.25 


6.80 

13.OO 


8.20 

6-95 


6.00 


4-5o 


8.00 
7.10 


4-25 


4- 5° 


5.00 


4.00 

8.00 


From Portland. 


Unlimited. 


5 7-75 
12.65 
8.30 
13-45 
5-5o 
9.00 
10.25 
16.40 


6.80 
11.10 
13.00 
21.60 


9.00 
14.50 
8.20 
6-95 
n-35 


6.00 

10.00 


5.00 
7.00 
8.00 
7.10 
11.60 
10.00 
16.00 

4-75 

7.00 

9.00 

14.50 

9.00 

i5- 2 5 

8.50 

13-75 


4- 5° 

6.50 

9-75 

17.80 

5- 5o 
9.00 
7.20 

11.85 
4-5o 
6.50 
8.30 

13-65 


Limited. 


5.00 

9-75 


6.30 


12.50 


7- 70 
6-45 


5-50 


4.00 


7-50 

6.60 


3-75 


3.50 


4-5° 


3-5o 

7-5° 


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TARIFF OF RATES.—Continued. 


DESTINATION. 


PABYAN’S, N. H. 

Falmouth, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Fort Fairfield, Me. 

do. and Return. 

Fredericton, N. B. 

do. and Return... 

QRAND PRE, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

JJALIFAX, N. S. (via I. C. R’y).... 

do. and Return. 

do. (via W. A. R’y. 

do. and Return. 

Hantsport, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Har Au Bouche. 

Heatherton. 

Hopewell. 

Houlton, Me. 

J/dENTVILLE, N. S.!. 

do. and Return. 

Kingston, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

pAWRENCETOWN, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Lewiston, Me. 

Liverpool, N. S. 

Londonderry, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

A/TECHANIC FALLS, Me. 

Metapediac, N. B. 

do. and Return. 

Meteghan, N. S... 

Middleton, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Moncton, N. B.. 

do. and Return.. 

Montreal, P. Q. (G. T. R’y). 

do. (via P. & O. R’y)_ 

Mt. Uniacke, N. S... 

do. and Return. 

Mulgrave, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

]^EW CASTLE, N. B. 

do. and Return. 

New Glasgow, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

New Mills, N. B. 

do. and Return... 

North Conway, N. H. 

Norway, Me... 

CALD ORCHARD, Me... 

Oxford, N. B. . . 

do. and Return...... 

pARADISE, N. S... 

do. and Return.... 

Peticodiac, N. B. 

do. and Return... 


From Boston. 

From Portland. 

Unlimited. 

Limited. 

Unlimited. 

Limited. 

$ 4.50 
8.25 

14.OO 

9. 20 
I 5-°5 

5 - 5 ° 
9 - 5 ° 
8.00 

13-45 

9 - 5 ° 

i 5 - 5 ° 

9.80 

i 5 - 5 o 

8.25 

I 3-85 

11.50 

11.10 

9 - 5 ° 
7-75 
" 7 - 75 

1 Too 
7-05 
n -75 
6.70 
11.25 
2.00 

10.00 

9-75 
i 5 - 10 
2.30 

10.70 
17-35 

6 - 75 
6.85 

11.50 

7 - i 5 
12.00 

8.50 

8.50 

9.10 
I 5 -I 5 

11.90 

19.10 

8.75 

14.40 

9 - 5 ° 

i 5 - 5 ° 

10.10 
16.45 

3.20 

2-95 

i -35 

8.80 
14.40 

6.60 

11.10 

6.50 

11.00 




9 7-75 

t 7-75 
15.00 

8.70 
14-05 
5.00 
8.50 

7 - 5 ° 

12.45 

9.00 

14.50 

9 - 3 ° 

14.50 

7-75 

12.85 

11.00 
10.60 
9.00 
7-25 
7-25 
12.00 

6-55 

io -75 

6.20 
10.25 

$ 7-25 









7 - 5 ° 

7.00 

9.00 

8.50 

8.20 

7.70 

7-75 

7-25 

11.00 

10.60 
9.00 

6. 50 
7-25 

10.50 

10.10 
8.50 
6.00 

6-75 

6-55 

6.05 

6.20 

5 - 7 o 



9-50 

9-25 

9-50 

9-25 

14.10 

9.00 

8.75 




10.20 

16.35 

6.25 

6-35 

10.50 
6.65 

11.00 




6.25 

6-35 

5-75 

5.85 










8.25 

8.60 

14.15 

11.40 

18.10 

8.25 

13.40 
9.00 

14 - 5 ° 

9.60 

15 - 45 

7-75 

11.00 

10.50 





9.00 

8.50 














8.30 

13.40 

6.10 

10.10 
6.00 
10.00 




6.10 

5.60 



. 



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TARIFF OF RATES.—Continued. 


DESTINATION. 


Pictou, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Poland Springs. 

Portland, Me...... 

do. and Return. 

do. and Return (rail).... 

Port Williams, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Presque Isle, Me. 

Profile House, N. H. 

do. and Return. 

Pt. Du Chene, N. B. 

do. and Return. 

Pt. Hawkesburg, C. B. 

do. and Return. 

Pt. Hastings. 

J^OBBINSTON, Me. 

do. and Return. 

Round Hill. 


do. 

and Return. 

gACKVILLE, 

N. B. 

and Return. 

Salisbury, N. B. 
do. 


and Return. 

Stewiacke. 


do. 

and Return. 


Straits Canso, N. S. (Pt. Hawksbury)... 

do. and Return. 

Summerside, P. E. I. 

do. and Return. 

Sussex, N. B. 

do. and Return. 

Sydney, C. B. 

do. and Return. 

THOMPSON, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Tracadie. 

Truro, N. S . 

do. and Return. 

^yATERVILLE, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Weldford, N. B. 

do. and Return. 

Wentworth, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Weymouth, N. S. 

Whycocomaugh. 

Wilmot, N. S... 

do. and Return. 

Windsor, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Wolfville, N. S. 

do. and Return. 

Woodstock, N. B. (via Calais). 

YARMOUTH, N. S. 

do. and Return. 


From Boston. 


Unlimited. 


$ 9.50 
I 5-50 
2-75 

I.OO 
2.00 
4.00 

7-95 

13.20 

9.90 

6.90 

11.80 

7-5° 

12.50 
12.00 

I 9-3° 

12.05 

5 - 50 
8.00 
6. 50 

11.00 
8.05 

13-35 

6.80 

11.40 

9-5° 
15-5° 
12.00 
19.30 
8.25 
14.00 

5.80 
10.00 
14.90 
24.10 

8.85 

14.50 

11.50 

9-5° 

15-5° 

7-5° 

12.50 
8.05 

13- 3° 

9.00 

14- 75 

6.80 

14.40 

6- 95 
n-55 

8.55 

14.00 
8.00 
13-3° 

7- 75 

8- 45 

12.75 


Limited. 


9.00 


3-50 

7-45 


11.10 


11.05 

4-5° 


6.00 


9.00 
11.10 


14.00 


10.80 
9.00 


7.00 


5.00 

! 3 - 5 o 

6-45 


7-75 

7-5o 


6.50 
6.50 


From Portland. 


Unlimited. 


Limited. 


$ 9.00 
14.50 


$ 8 


•50 


7-45 


6-95 


12.20 

9.40 


7.00 
11.50 
11.50 
18.30 

n-55 

5.00 

7.00 

6.00 

10.00 


10.60 


10.65 

4.00 


5-5o 


7-55 

12.35 

6.30 

10.40 
9.00 

14.50 

11.50 

18.30 

7- 75 

13.00 

5- 30 

9.00 

14.40 
23.10 

8- 35 
13-5° 
10.80 

9.00 

14.40 

7.00 

11.50 

7-55 

12.50 

8.50 

13-75 

6.30 
13.90 

6- 45 
10.55 

8.05 

13.00 

7- 50 
12.30 

7-25 

7-95 

n-75 


8.50 

10.60 


13-5° 


10.30 

8.50 


6.50 


4- 5o 

13.00 

5- 95 


7- 25 


7.00 


6.00 

6.00 


SPECIAL NOTICE.—For rates via Direct Nova Scotia Line from Boston, see page 88. 

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* 


MISCELLANEOUS TOURS. 


Parties of ten or more travelling at one time will be furnished with special rates, 
upon application to the General Passenger Agent of the Company, Portland, Me. 


No. i. Annapolis and Return. $10.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. S. Co.; 
return same route. 

No. 2. Antigonish, N. S., and Return. $17.40 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to New Glasgow by Intercolonial R’y ; 

New Glasgow to Antigonish by Eastern Extension R’y ; return same route. 


No. 3. Calais, Me., and Return. $8.00 

Boston to Eastport by International S. S. Co.; Eastport to Calais by Frontier S. B. Co.; return 
same route. 

No. 4. Campobello, N. B., and Return. $8.00 

Boston to Eastport by International S. S. Co.; Eastport to Campobello by Campobello S. B. Co.; 
return same route. 

No. 5. Charlottetown, P. E. I., and Return. $16.25 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Pt. Du Chene by Intercolonial R’y; 

Pt. Du Chene to Summerside by P. E. I. Steam Nav. Co.; Summerside to Charlottetown by 
P. E. I. R’y ; return same route. 

No. 6. Charlottetown, P. E. I., and Return. $19.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Pt. Du Chene by Intercolonial R’y; 

Pt. Du Chene to Summerside by P. E. I. Steam Nav. Co.; Summerside to Charlottetown by 
P. E. I. R’y: Charlottetown to Pictou by P. E. I. Steam Nav. Co.; Pictou to Halifax by 
Intercolonial R’y ; Halifax to Boston by B., H. & P. E. I. S. S. Line. 

No. 7. Digby, N. S., and Return. $10.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Digby by Bay of Fundy S. S. Co.; 
return same route. 

No. 8. Eastport, Me., and Return. $7.50 

Boston to Eastport by International S. S. Co.; Eastport to Boston by International S. S. Co. 

No. 9. Fort Fairfield and Return. $15.05 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Fredericton by Union Line Steamers ; 
Fredericton to Ft. Fairfield by New Brunswick R’y; return same route. 

No. 10. Halifax and Return. $15.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. S. Co.- 
Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & Annapolis R’y; return same route. 


No. 11. Halifax and Return. $15.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Halifax by Intercolonial R’y; return 
same route. 

No. 12. Halifax and Return. $17.50 

Boston to Halifax via Excursion No. 12 and return via Excursion No. 13, or vice versa. 


No. 13. Halifax and Return. $15.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Halifax by Intercolonial R’v : Halifax 
to Boston by B., H. _& P. E. I. S. S. Line. 


No. 14. 


Halifax and Return. 


$17.50 


Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Halifax by Intercolonial R’y ; Halifax 
to Annapolis by Windsor & Annapolis R’y ; Annapolis to Boston by International S. S. Co. 

No. 15. Halifax and Return. $16.00 

Boston to Annapolis by International S. S. Co.; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & Annapolis 
R’y ; Halifax to Annapolis by Windsor & Annapolis R’y ; Annapolis to St. Tohn bv Bav of 
Fundy S. S. Co.; St. John to Boston by International S. S. Co. 


No. 16. 


Halifax and Return. 


Boston to Annapolis by International S. S. Co.; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & Annapolis 
R’y ; Halifax to St. John by Intercolonial R’y ; St. John T ~ ~ - 


$ 17.50 


to Boston by International S. S Co. 


No. 17. 


Halifax and Return. 


Boston to Annapolis by International S. S. Co.; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & Annaoolis 
R’y ; Halifax to Boston by B., H. & P. E. I. S. S. Line. v 

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$14.00 




MISCELLANEOUS TOURS.— Continued 


No. 18. Kentville and Return. $13.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S S 
Co.; Annapolis to Kentville by Windsor & Annapolis R’y ; return same route. 

No. 19. Montreal and Return. $14.00 

Boston to Portland by International S. S. Co.; Portland to Montreal by Grand Trunk R’y 
return same route. 

No. 20. Montreal and Return. $26.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Montreal by Canadian Pacific Short 
Line ; Montreal to Boston by Can. Pac. R’y via Newport. 

No. ai. Mulgrave and Return. $19.10 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to New Glasgow by Intercolonial K’y ; 

New Glasgow to Mulgrave by Eastern Extension R’y ; return same route. 

No. 22. New Castle, N. B., and Return. $14.40 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to New Castle by Intercolonial R’y ; 
return same route. 

No. 23. Pictou, N. S., and Return. $15*50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Truro by Intercolonial R’y; return 
same route. 


No. 24. Portland, Me., and Return. $2.00 

Boston to Portland by International S. S. Co.; Portland to Boston by International S. S. Co. 

No. 25. Portland, Me., and Return. $4.00 

Boston to Portland by International S. S. Co.; Portland to Boston by Boston & Maine R. R.; if 
limited ticket, $3.50. 

No. 26. Sydney, C. B., and Return. $24.10 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to New Glasgow by Intercolonial R’y ; 

New Glasgow to Mulgrave by Eastern Extension R’y; Mulgrave to Sydney by Bras d’Or 
Lake S. S. Co.; return same route. 


No. 27. St. John, N. B., and Return. $10.50 

Boston to Annapolis by International S. S. Co.; Annapolis to St. John by Bay of Fundy S. S. 

Co.; St. John to Boston by International S. S. Co.; or -vice versa. 

No. 28. St. John, N. B., and Return. $12.00 

Boston to Eastport by International S. S. Co ; Eastport to Calais by Frontier S. B. Co.; Calais 
to St. John by Grand Southern R’y ; return same route. 

No. 29. Summerside, P. E. I., and Return. $14.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. J hn to Pt. Du Chene by Intercolonial R’y ; 

Pt. Du Chene to Summerside by P. E. I. Steam Nav. Co.; return same route. 

No. 30. Summerside P. E. I., and Return. $23.77 

Boston to Annapolis by International S. S. Co.; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & Annapolis 
R’y; Halifax to Pictou by Intercolonial R’y; Pictou to Charlottetown by P. E. I. Steam 
Nay. Co.; Charlottetown to Summerside by P. E. I. R’y ; return same route. 

No. 31. Truro, N. S., and Return. $15.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St.John to Truro by Intercolonial R’y; return 
same route. 

No. 32. Three Provinces Excursion. $22.10 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. S. Co.; 
Annapolis to Ha ifax by Windsor & Annapolis R’y ; Halifax to Pictou by Intercolonial R’y ; 
Pictou to Charlottetown by P. E. I. Steam Nav. Co.; Charlottetown to Summerside by P. E, 

I. R’y; Summerside to Pt. Du. Chene by P. E. I. Steam Nav. Co.; Pt. Du Chene to St. 

John by Intercolonial R’y ; St. John to Boston by International S. S. Co.; this tour may be 
reversed, at same rate, if desired. 

No. 33. Windsor and Return. $14.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. S. Co.; 
Annapolis to Windsor by Windsor & Annapolis R’y ; return same route. 

No. 34. Yarmouth, N. S., and Return. $12.75 

Boston to St. John by International S S. Co.; St. John to Digby by Bay of Fundy S. S. Co.; 

Digby to Yarmouth by Western Counties R’y ; return same route. 

No. 35. Yarmouth, N. S., and Return. $9.00 

Boston to Digby by International S. S Co.; Digby to Yarmouth by Western Counties R’y; 
return same route. 


No. 36. Yarmouth, N. S., and Return. $10.00 

Boston to Digby by International S. S. Co.; Digby to Yarmouth by Western Counties R’y; Yar¬ 
mouth to Boston by Yarmouth S. S. Co. 


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SUMMER TOURS 


BY 

BOSTON AND ANNAPOLIS DIRECT LINE. 


No. 37. Annapolis and Return. $8.00 

Boston to Annapolis via International Steamship Company direct; return same route. 

No. 38. Baddeck, C. B., and Return. $25.60 

Same Route, going and returning, as No. 12. 

No. 39. Caledonia and Return. $13.00 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company ; Annapolis to Caledonia by Stailing’s 
Coaches ; return same route. 

No. 40. Digby and Return. $7.50 

Boston to Digby direct, by International Steamship Company ; return same route. 

No. 41. Halifax and Return. $14.00 

VIA ANNAPOLIS. 


Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & 
Annapolis Railway ; return same route. 

No. 42. Halifax via Annapolis. $16.50 

. RETURN VIA ST. JOHN. 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company ; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & 
Annapolis Railway ; Halifax to Annapolis by Windsor & Annapolis Railway ; Annapolis to 
St. John by Nova Scotia Steamship Company’s steamers; St. John to Boston by Interna¬ 
tional line of steamers via Eastport and Portland. 

No. 43. Halifax via Annapolis. $17.50 

RETURN VIA ST. JOHN. 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company ; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & 
Annapolis Railway - Halifax to St. John by Intercolonial Railway; St. John to Boston by 
International line of steamers via Eastport and Portland. 

No. 44. Halifax via Annapolis. $17.50 

RETURN VIA “OUTSIDE LINE.” 

Boston to Annapolis direct, by International Steamship Company’s steamers ; Annapolis to 
Halifax by rail ; return by steamer, Halifax direct to Boston. Rate from Boston, $13.50. 

No. 45. Kentville and Return. $11.00 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company ; Annapolis to Kentville by Windsor 
& Annapolis Railway ; return same route. 

No. 46. Summerside, P. E. I., and Return. $23.27 

VIA ANNAPOLIS. 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company ; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & 
Annapolis Railway ; Halifax to Pictou by Intercolonial Railway ; Pictou to Charlottetown 
by Prince Edward Island Navigation Company’s steamer ; Charlottetown to Summerside by 
Prince Edward Island Railway ; return same route. 

No. 47. St. John and Return. $10.50 

VIA ANNAPOLIS. 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company; Annapolis to St. John by Nova 
Scotia Steamship Company ; St. John to Boston by International Steamship Company. 

No. 48. Sydney, C. B., and Return. $27.10 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company ; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & 
Annapolis Railway; Halifax to New Glasgow by Intercolonial Railway; New Glasgow to 
Strait of Canso by Eastern Extension Railway ; Strait of Canso to Sydney by Bras d’Or Lake 
Navigation Company ; return same route. 

No. 49. Windsor and Return. $12.00 

Boston to Annapolis by International Steamship Company ; Annapolis to Windsor by Windsor 
& Annapolis Railway ; return same route. 

No. 50. Yarmouth Excursion. $9.00 

Boston to Yarmonth, via International Steamship Company and Western Counties Railway; 
return same route. 


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WHITE MOUNTAINS, 

VIA OCEAN DAY-ROUTE, BOSTON TO PORTLAND. 

pf” Coupons reading between Boston and Portland by International 
Co ; , member direction will be accepted by Portland Steam Packet Co Thf steamers 
of the International Line” haveino specified hour of leaving Portland for Boston, but 
usually leave between 3 and 5 A. M. ’ 


No. 51. 


Bethlehem, N. H., and Return. 


Bos ‘?" t " P £T tla 1 L d by International S -, S - Co -: Portland to Fabyan’s by Maine Central R R 
(White Mt. Div.); babyan s to Bethlehem Junction by Boston & Maine R R (Lowell Div )• 
rsUe^from"!!oston,**$9.10^ e 1 h ehem ^ Profile & Franconia Notch R. R.; reiur^er^ i 


No. 52. 


Crawford House, N. H., and Return. 


B ° St R" r 0 tw r h ! f n ^ y ^ rnational S ‘ S - Ca: Poland to Crawford House by Maine Central 
R. R. (White Mt. Div.); return same route ; rate from Boston, $6.85. central 

No - 53 - Fabyan’s, N. H., and Return. 

B0St ewKv International S. S. Co.; Portland to Fabyan’s by Maine Central R R 

(White Mt. Div.); return same route; rate from Boston, $7.10. 7 31 K ‘ K * 


No. 54. 


Fryeburg, Me., and Return. 


No. 55. 


Bost ,°", t ? t PorUand by fnternationa 1 s _ S. Co.; Portland to Fryeburg by Maine Central R R 
(White Mt. Div.); return same route ; rate from Boston, $5 10. central K. K. 


Glen House, N. H., and Return. 


B0St (WhRe P Mt 1 ^ Div Port J a » d , to Glen Station by Maine Central R. R. 

C BoSnfgii’oo ^ Statl ° n t0 ° len H ° USe by ° len Stage Line ’ return same route ; rate 

No. 56. Glen House, N. H., via Glen Station ; Return via Gorham. 

liOS lT^e^* a5 ^ 

InternationS^^S^tio^rate'froin^BMton,^' run * c Railw ^; Portland to Boston by 

No. 57. Glen House, N. H., via Gorham; Return via Glen Station 

Bosmn^tt^Rirtl^id^b^Int^national House^cf'Glen ^Stimi^b^Glmf'stage 

by^DiternationaVs? S^Co.^rate fernKonTjSo?.' ** (WhitC Mt ‘ Div ' ): Port,and to Boston 


No. 58. 


Mount Washington, N. H., and Return. 


Bost °V° Portland by International S. S. Co.; Portland to Fabyan’s by Maine Central R R 
(White Mt. Div ) ; Fabyan’s to Base by Boston & Maine R. R. (Lowell Div ) • Base to Sum¬ 
mit by Mount Washington Railway ; return same route; rate from Boston, $13.10. 

No. 59. Mount Washington, N. H., via Fabyan’s; Return via Glen House and Gorham. 

Bos too to Portland by International S. S. Co.; Portland to Fabyan’s by Maine Central R R 
(White Mt. Div.) : Fabyan’s to Base by Boston & Maine R. R. (Lowell Div.) • Base to Sum¬ 
mit by Mount Washington Railway ■ Summit to Glen House by Glen Stage Line • Glen 
House to Gorham by Glen Stage Line ; Gorham to Portland by Grand Trunk Railway 
Portland to Boston by International S. S. Co.; rate from Boston, $14.30. ’ 


No. 60. 


North Conway, N. H., and Return. 


Iloston to Portland by International S. S. Co.; Portland to North Conway by Maine Central 
R. R. (White Mt. Div.) ; return same route; rate from Boston, $5.60. 

No. 61. North Conway, N. H., via M. C. R. R. (White Mt. Div.) Return 

via B. & M. R. R. (Eastern Div.) 

BOSt R° n jKWrrt S. s. Co.; Portland to North Conway by Maine Central 
Boston^$10 00 Mt ’ DlV ' ’ North Conwa y ^ Boston by Boston & Maine R. R.; rate from 

No - fi 2. Montreal, Can., and Return. 

B ° St /Whl P Mt tla n' I 1 nternatlonal s - s - Co.; Portland to Lunenburg by Maine Central R. R. 
(White Mt. Div.) • Lunenburg to St. Johnsbury by Boston & Maine R. R. (Lowell Div) • 
£*• Johnsbury to Newport by Boston & Maine R. R. (Lowell Div.); Newport to Montreal by 
Canadian Pacific Railway; return same route ; rate fronj Boston, $14.00. 1 


SIDE TRIPS. 


Fabyan’s to Profile House. 

Fabyan’s to Bethlehem Junction by Boston & Maine R. R. (Lowell Div.) ; Bethlehem Junction 
to Profile House by Profile & Franconia Notch R. R., return same route ; rate from 
Fabyan’s, $4.00. ’ 


Fabyan’s to Mount Washington and Return. 

Fabyan s to Base by Boston & Maine R. R. (Lowell Div.) ; Base to Summit by Mount Washing¬ 
ton Railway ; returning same route ; rate from Fabyan’s, $6.00. 


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CONNECTING LINES EAST. OF BOSTON. 


SPECIAL JXOTICE. 


The time-tables given below are substantially correct at the time this book goes to 
press. Slight changes may, however, occur when the Summer Arrangements of 
the lines takes effect, and passengers are respectfully referred to the official publica¬ 
tions of the several lines, also to the Pathfinder Railway Guide, published at Boston 
monthly, and to the Travelers’ Official Railway Guide, published monthly at New 
York, which contain time-tables of all lines in the United States and Canada. 

BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD. — Trains leavingBoston at 12.30 P. M. 

(Eastern Division) and 1 P. M. (Western Division) connect with the steamers 
of the International Steamship Co. at Portland. Trains for Boston leave Portland 
(Western Division) at 6.30 and 8.45 A. M., 12.40 and 3.30 P. M., and (on the 
Eastern Division) at 2.00 and 9.00 A. M., 1.00 and 6.00 P. M. 

WESTERN DIVISION LOCAL TRAINS, FROM PORTLAND 

For Old Orchard Beach, Saco, Biddeford, and intermediate stations, 6.30, 8.45 
and 10.25 A. M., 3.30 and 6.15 P. M. For Kennebunk, 6.30, 8.45 A. M., 12.45, 
3.30and6.i5 P. M. For Wells Beach, 6.30, 8.45 A. M., and 3.30 P. M. For North 
Berwick, Great Falls and Dover, 6.30, 8.45 A. M., 12.45 and 3.30 P. M. For 
Exeter, Haverhill, Lawrence and Lowell, 6.30, 8.45 A. M., and 3.30 P. M. For 
Rochester, Farmington, Alton Bay and Wolf boro’, 8.45 A. M., 12.45 and 3 - 3 ° 
P. M. For Manchester and Concord (via Lawrence), 8.45 A. M. For Manchester 
and Concord (via New Market Junction), 6.30 A. M. and 3.30 P. M. 

s 

EASTERN DIVISION TRAINS 

Leave Portland at 2.00 A. M. for Boston (night Pullman), stopping at Biddeford, 
Kittery, Portsmouth, Newburyport, Ipswich, Salem, Lynn, Chelsea and Somerville. 
Leave Portland for Boston and important way-stations at 9.00 A. M. 

Leave Portland 1.00 P. M. for Boston, stopping at way-stations to Portsmouth. 
Leave Portland 3.25 P. M. for Cape Elizabeth. 

Leave Portland at 6 P. M. (express for Boston), stopping only at principal points. 

CY Branch trains leave Commercial-street Station, at the head of International 
Steamship Co.’s dock, for Scarboro’ Crossing, connecting with principal local and 
through trains from Union Station. 

BOOTHBAY, MOUSE AND SQUIRREL ISLANDS. — (Twenty-five 

miles.) Eastern Steamboat Co. Steamers leave Bath, Me., daily (except Sunday), 
after anival of noon trains of Maine Central Railroad from Portland. 

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CONNECTING LINES EAST OF BOSTON.—Continued. 


BAY OF FUNDY STEAMSHIP CO.— (Sixty miles.) (St. John, 
Digby, and Annapolis, Nova Scotia Line.) Steamers, during June, July, 
August and September, leave St. John every week-day (except Tuesday) at 7.30 
A. M. local St. John time, for Digby and Annapolis, N. S., connecting at these points 
for all parts of Western Nova Scotia. Returning, leave Annapolis and Digby same 
afternoon, arriving at St. John about 7.00 P. M. 

BAY DE CHALEUR, N. B. — Steamer “Admiral” leaves Dalhousie (north 
shore of N. B.) every Wednesday and Saturday morning for Gaspe, N. B., calling 
at intermediate ports. Returning, leave Gaspe Monday and Thursday mornings. 

CAMPOBELLO STEAMBOAT CO. —(One and one-half miles.) Steamer 
for the Island of Campobello leaves Eastport at frequent intervals during the day. 


CANADIAN PACIFIC SHORT LINE, between St. John and Montreal, 
will be opened early in June. 

CAPE BRETON STEAMER LINE.— (Eighty miles.) (Bras d’Or 
Lake Steam Navigation Co.) After commencement of the summer time-table 
of the Intercolonial, Railway, steamers leave Mulgrave (Eastern terminus of the 
Intercolonial Railway) every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, on arrival of 
express train from St. John, for Sydney, passing through Lennox Passage and St. 
Peter’s Canal, for Grand Narrows, Baddeck and Boularderie Island in Bras d’Or 
Lakes. Returning, leave Sydney (calling at above places) Mondays, Wednesdays, 
and Fridays, for Mulgrave, connecting with express for St. John and all points west. 

FRONTIER STEAMBOAT CO.— (Thirty miles.) (Eastport, St. 
Andrews, Robbinston, Calais — opp. St. Stephen.) Steamer “ Rose Standish ” 
runs in regular connection with the steamers of the International Steamship Co. to 
and from Eastport, performing a daily service on the St. Croix River. 


GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY .— For Auburn and Lewiston, 7.20, 9.00 
A. M., 12.45 an d 5 - 12 F M. For Gorham, N. H., 9.00 A. M., 1.30 and 5.12 P. M. 
For Montreal and Chicago, 9.00 A. M., and 1.30 P. M. For Quebec, 1.30 P. M. 
For Buckfield and Canton,, 9.00 A. M., and 1.30 P. M. 


GRAND SOUTHERN RAILWAY.—(Between St. John, St. George, 
and St. Stephen, N. B.) Trains leave Carleton (ferry from St. John) daily 
(Sundays excepted) at 7.45 A. M. 

GLEN HOUSE STAGE LINE.— Stages leave Glen Station, Maine Cen¬ 
tral Railroad (White Mountains Division), on arrival of train from Portland, 11.00 
A. M., train from Boston, 2.00 P. M.; also leave Gorham, N. H., (Grand Trunk 
Railway) on arrival of train leaving Portland at 9.00 A. M. and 1.30 P. M.; leave 
the summit of Mount Washington for Glen House at 7.00 A. M. and 2.00 P. M. 

97 


CONNECTING LINES EAST OF BOSTON.—Continued 


INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY.— Trains of this road leave St. John 
morning and evening for Moncton, Campbellton, Amherst, Truro, Halifax, and all 
important stations on main line both north and south of Moncton. For hours of 
leaving, see official time-cards. (At the time of this book going to press, a fast train 
is being considered between St. John and Halifax, to leave former place about 2.30 
P. M., arriving at Halifax same night.) 

LUBEC AND EASTPORT FERRY. — (Three miles.) Ferry steamers 

leave Eastport for Lubec at frequent intervals day and evening. 

LUBEC AND MACHIAS STAGE.— (Twenty-eight miles.) Leaves 
Lubec daily for Machias. Returning, leaves Machias daily for Lubec. 

MAINE CENTRAL RAILWAY.—Trains leave Portland as follows : 

For Auburn and Lewiston, 8.45 A. M., 1.15 and 5.05 P. M. Lewiston, via 
Brunswick, 6.50, 10.30 A. M., 1.20, 5.10 and X11.20 P. M. For Bath, 6.50 A. M., 
1.20 and 5.10 P. M., and on Saturdays only at 11.20 P. M. Rockland and Knox & 
Lincoln Railroad, 6.50 A. M., and 1.20 P. M. Brunswick, Gardiner, Hallowell 
and Augusta, 6.50 A. M., 1.20, 5.10 and £11.20 P. M. Farmington, via Lewiston, 
8.45 A. M. and 1.15 P. M.; via Brunswick, 1.20 P. M. Monmouth, Winthrop, 
Lake Maranacook, Readfield, Oakland and North Anson, 1.15 P. M. Waterville 
and Skowhegan, via Lewiston, 1.15 P. M.; via Augusta, 6.50 A. M., 1.20 and 
£11.20 P. M., and on Saturdays to Waterville at 5.10 P. M. Belfast and Dexter, 
1,15, 1.20, £11 .20 P. M. Bangor, via Lewiston, 1.15 P. M.; via Augusta, 6.50, 
10.30 A. M., 1.20, %ii.20 P. M. Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad, £11.20 P. M. 
Ellsworth and Mt. Desert Ferry, 1.20, £11.20 P. M. Bar Harbor, 1.20, 11.20 P. M. 
Vanceboro’, St. Stephen (Calais), Aroostook County, St. John, Halifax, and the 
Provinces, 1.15, 1.20, £11.20 P. M. 

£Night express, with sleeping-car attached, runs every night, Sundays included, 
through to Bangor, but not to Skowhegan Monday mornings, or to Belfast and 
Dexter, or beyond Bangor, Sunday mornings. 

WHITE MOUNTAINS LINE.—For Cumberland Mills, 8.45, 10.30 A. M., 
1.45, 6.15 P. M. For Sebago Lake, 8.45, 10.30 A. M., 1.45 P. M. For Bridgton, 
Fryeburg, North Conway, Glen Station, Crawford’s, and Fabyan’s and Montreal, 
8.45 A. M. Bridgton, Fryeburg, North Conway and Bartlett, 1.45 P. M. 

NOVA SCOTIA CENTRAL RAILWAY.— Trains of this railway con¬ 
nect at Middleton (N. & A. R’y) for New Germany, Lunenburg, Bridgewater, 
Malone Bay, and other points on South Shore including Liverpool. 

NEW BRUNSWICK RAILWAY.—(St. John to Fredericton, Grand 
Falls, Vanceboro’, St. Stephen, St. Andrews, etc.) Trains leave St. John 
for Fredericton, St. Stephen, St. Andrews, Idoulton, Bangor, etc., at 6.10 and 8.55 
A. M. For Fredericton at 4.45 P. M. For St. Stephen, St. Andrews, Houlton, 
Bangor, etc., at 8.30 P. M. 


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CONNECTING LINES EAST OF BOSTON.—Continued. 


PORTLAND AND NEW YORK LINE.— (Three hundred and forty 
miles.) (Maine Steamship Co.) Steamers leave Portland for New York, calling 
at Martha’s Vineyard every Wednesday and Saturday at 6 P. M. 

PORTLAND, MT. DESERT AND MACHIAS LINE.— (One hun¬ 
dred and sixty miles.) Steamer leaves Portland at n.oo P. M., Tuesdays and 
Fridays, for Rockland, Bar Harbor, and Machiasport, calling at intermediate points. 
Returning, leaves Machiasport, Bar Harbor, etc., Mondays and Thursdays. 

PORTLAND AND BOOTHBAY LINE. — Steamer leaves Portland 
Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8.00 A. M., for Squirrel Island, Boothbay, Heron 
Island, South Bristol, and East Boothbay, and for Pemaquid every Thursday at 
8.00 A. M. Returning, leaves Boothbay every Monday and Thursday at 8.00 
A. M. for Portland and intermediate points. Also leaves Pemaquid for Portland 
Fridays at 7.00 A. M. 

PORTLAND AND BOSTON STEAMERS.— (One hundred and ten 
miles.) (Portland Steam Packet Co.) Leave Portland at 7.00 P. M. daily. 
Returning, leave Boston at 7.00 P. M. daily. During summer season, special 
Sunday-evening trips are made in both directions. 

PORTLAND & ROCHESTER RAILROAD.— Trains leave Portland 
as follows:—For Worcester, Clinton, Ayer Junction, Nashua, Windham and 
Epping at 7.30 A. M. and 12.30 P. M. For Manchester, Concord, and points 
north at 12.30 P. M. For Rochester, Springvale, Alfred, Waterboro’, and Saco 
River at 7.30 A. M., 12.30 and 5.30 P. M. For Gorham at 7.30 A. M., 12.30, 
3.00, 5.30 and 6.20 P. M. For Saccarappa, Cumberland Mills, Westbrook Junc¬ 
tion, and Woodford’s at 7.30 and 10.00 A. M., 12.30, 3.00, 5.30 and 6.20 P. M. 

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND STEAM NAVIGATION CO.— Steamer 
leaves Point du Chene about 2.00 P. M. daily, except Sundays, for Summerside. 
Returning, leaves Summerside about 8.00. Leaves Pictou, Monday, Wednesday, 
Friday and Saturday about 1.00 P. M., for Charlottetown. Returning, leaves 
Charlottetown, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday about 7.00 A. M. 

UNION LINE STEAMER leaves St. John at 9.00 A. M. week-days. 
Returning, leaves Fredericton 8.00 A. M. week-days. 

WINDSOR & ANNAPOLIS RAILWAY.— Trains leave Annapolis as 
follows:—1.40 P. M. daily (except Sunday), for all points between Annapolis and 
Halifax; also at 6.00 A. M. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (mixed train). 

WESTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—(Between Digby and Yar¬ 
mouth, N. S.) Trains leave Digby for Weymouth, Meteghan and Yarmouth at 
3.15 P. M. daily (Sundays excepted). Returning, leave Yarmouth at 7.45 A. M. 


99 






CONNECTING LINES TO PORTLAND 

AND SOUTH AND WEST E R O ML BOSTON. 


THROUGH TRAINS--SUBJ ECT TO CHANGE. 


Boston & Maine Railroad — Eastern Division. 

For PORTLAND — 7.30 and 9.00 A. M., 12.30 and 7.00 P. M. 
“ WHITE MOUNTAINS —7.30 A. M., 12.30 P. M. 

Boston & Maine Railroad — Western Division. 

For PORTLAND — 7.30 and 8.30 A. M., 1.00 and 3.45 P. M. 


Morning- trains and the 
I 12.30 and i.oc P. M. trains 
y connect at Portland with 
| steamers. 

131 *“ No transfer. 

J 


Boston & Maine Railroad — Lowell Division. 

For MONTREAL, P. Q. — via Central Vermont Railroad — 8.30 A. M., 1.00 and 7.00 P. M. 
“ “ “ — via Canadian Pacific Railway — -9.00 A. M., 7.00 P. M. 

“ WHITE MOUNTAINS — 9.00 A. M. 


Boston & Maine Railroad — Central Mass. Division. 

For HUDSON, WARE and NORTHAMPTON — 7.45 A. M., 1.30 P. M. 

Boston & Albany Railroad. 

For NEW YORK — 5.00, 9.00 and 11.00 A. M., 4.00 and 11.00 P. M. 

“ ALBANY — 5.00, 8.30 and 11.00 A. M., 3.00, 7.00 and 10.30 P. M. 

“ THE WEST — 8.30 A. M., 3.00 and 7.00 P. M. 


Fitchburg Railroad — Hoosac Tunnel Route. 

For MONTREAL, P. Q.— via Central Vermont Railroad — 8.00 and 11.30 A. M. 
“ TROY, N. Y.— 6.30, 8.30 and 11.30 A. M., 3.00, 7.00 and 11.00 P. M. 

“ THE WEST — 8.30 and 11.30 A. M., 3.00 and 7.00 P. M. 

New York & New England Railroad. 

For NEW YORK — 8.30 A. M., 12 00 noon, 3.00 and 3.30 P. M. 

“ PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON — 6.00 P. M. 

“ NEW YORK — via Sound Steamer — 6.00 P. M. 


Old Colony Railroad. 

For N E W YORK — via Fall River Line — 6.00 P. M. 

“ — via Shore Line ; all rail —■ 11.00 A. M., 1.00, 5.00 and 11.30 P. M. 

“ “ “ — via Providence Line — Opens in June. 

“ “ “ —via Stonington Line — 6.30 P.M. 


BOSTON AND PORTLAND BY DAYLIGHT. 


RATES. 

One Way. 

Return. 

Boston to Portland, Me . 

$1.00 

2.00 

3.°° 

5-25 

2.25 

4-50 

5.00 

2.00 

4-25 

4 - 50 

3 - 75 

5 - 8 5 

5-95 

4 - 50 

2-75 

2.90 

2.00 

8.50 

8.50 

3.20 

1- 35 

2 - 75 

4-50 

3 - 75 

$2.00 

“ “ Auburn,' “ . 

“ “ Augusta, “ . 


“ “ Bangor, “ . 


“ “ Bath, ' “ . 


“ “ Bar Harbor, Me . 

8.00 

“ “ Belfast, Me . 

“ “ Brunswick, Me . 


“ “ Crawford House, N. H . 

7.00 

7.00 

“ “ Fabyan’s, N. H . 

“ “ Farmington, Me . 

“ “ Glen House, N. H . (via P. & O.) 

“ “ “ “ “ . (viaG. T. R’y) 

“ “ Gorham, N. H . 

10.00 

io -75 

7.00 

“ “ Gardiner, Me . 

“ “ Hallowell, Me . 


“ “ Lewiston, Me. 


“ 11 Montreal, P. Q . (via P. & 0 . R. R.) 

“ “ “ “ . ...(via G. T. R’y) 

“ “ North Conway, N. 11 . 

14.50 

14.CO 

5.60 

2.50 

4.60 

“ “ Old Orchard, N. H. 

“ “ Poland Springs, Me. 

“ “ Skowhegan, Me. 

“ “ Waterville, Me. 





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STAGE CONNECTIONS. 


At Shubenacadie with Stages daily for Maitland, Gay’s River and Musquo- 
doboit, and on Saturdays for Kennetcook and Noel. 

At Truro, daily with Stages for Clifton, Black Rock and Maitland, and tri¬ 
weekly for Earltown, and W. Branch River John. 

At Hopewell with McDaniel’s Stage Line for Springville, Bridgeville, St. 
Paul, Upper and Lower Caledonia, Smithfield and Melrose. 

At Pictou with Stages for River John daily. 

At Londonderry with Stages for Acadia Iron Mines, Great Village, Economy 
and Five Islands. 

At Wentworth with Stage for Tatamagouche, daily. 

At Greenville with Mail Stages for Wallace and Wallace Bridge daily, and 
for Street’s Ridge, Middleboro and Wallace Bay, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 

At Thomson with Stages for Pugwash daily. 

At Maccan with Stages for Joggins and Minudie. 

At Shediac with Stages to and from Cocagne and Buctouche. 

At Weldford with Stages for Richibucto, Kingston and other places on North 
Shore. 

At Newcastle with tri-weekly Stage for Red Bank, Whitneyville, Derby, 
Blissfield, Doaktown and Fredericton. 

At Riviere du Loup with Turner’s Mail Line for Madawaska, N. B. 


CAPE BRETON CONNECTIONS, 1890. 

Steamship Marion will leave Sydney on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 
calling at Bouloidarie, Baddeck, Grand Narrows, St. Peters and Grandique Ferry, 
connecting with No. 20 Train. Returning leave Mulgrave on arrival of No. 19 
Train, for Sydney, calling at above points and connecting with Steamship Magnolia 
at Baddeck for Whycocomaugh, Little Narrows and Little Bras d’Or. 

Steamship Neptune will leave Mulgrave on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 
on arrival of No. 19 Train, for East Bay, calling at Grandique Ferry and St. Peters. 
Returning from East Bay on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in time to connect 
with No. 20 Train. 

Steamship Reinouski will leave Mulgrave every Monday and Friday, on arrival 
of No. 19 Train, for Arichat and Canso ; Tuesdays and Thursdays for Port Hood ; 
Wednesdays and Saturdays for Greysboro. Returning from above points following 
mornings, so as to connect with No. 20 Train. 


101 






IvIS'T OK HOTELS. 

This Company not responsible for errors or omissions. 


City or Town. 


Amherst, N. S ... 
Annapolis, N. S... 

Aylesford, N. S ... 

Berwick, N. S. 

Bridgetown, N. S. 

Calais, Me. 


Campobello, N. B. 

Cutler, Me. 

Dalhousie, N. B... 

Digby, N. S. 


Eastport, Me. 

Fredericton, N. B. 

Halifax, N. S. 

Kentville, N. S_ 


Kingston, N. S.... 
Lawrencet’n, N.S. 

Middleton, N. S... 
Moncton, N. B.... 


New Glasgow, N.S, 
Pt. Hastings, C. B. 
Portland, Me. 


St. Andrews, N. B 
St. John, N. B. 


Summerside, P.E.I. 
Truro, N. S. 


Name of Hotel. 


Waterville, N. S . 

Weymouth, N. S. 
Windsor, N. S ... 


Wolfville, N. S. 


Terrace Hotel. 

Amherst Hotel. 

Clifton House. 

American House... 
Commercial House. 
Aylesford House... 


French Villa. 

Grand Central. 

Revere House. 

Border City Hotel.. 
St. Croix Exchange 
American House.". 

Tyn-y-coed. 

Hotel Cutler. 

Inch Arran House.. 
Murphy’s Hotel.... 

Myrtle House. 

Royal Hotel. 

Short’s Hotel. 

Burnham House... 

Digby Hotel. 

Quoddy House. 

Barker House. 

Queen Hotel. 

Queen Hotel. 

Halifax Hotel. 

Lyons’ Hotel. 

Kentville House .. 

Porter House. 

Revere House . . 

American House... 

Victoria Hotel. 

Kingston House... 

Elm House. 

Valley House.. 

American House... 
Brunswick House . 
Commercial House 

Vendome. 

Caledonia Hotel ... 
Falmouth Hotel... 

United States. 

Preble House. 

City Hotel. 

Algonquin. 

Argyll. 

Dufferin. 

Victoria. 

Royal. 

New Victoria. 

Belmont. 

Clifton. 

Queen. 

Clifton House. 

Hotel Russ. 

Pr. of Wales Hotel. 

Parker House. 

Victoria Hotel. 

Winan’s Hotel. 


Proprietor. 


N. C. Calhoun. 

Geo. McFarlane. .. 
Wm. McLelland... 
Mrs. J. H. McLeod 
Mrs. J. H. Salter... 

M. N. Graves. 

Mrs. Corbin. 

Mrs. Vaughan. 

W. I. Glencross_ 

Mrs. Russell. 

D. M. Gardner. 

J. K. Duran. 

J. G. Hamilton 


s 

0 

0 

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Rate 

Per Day. 

Rate 

Per Week. 

40 

1.50 

Special. 

75 

I.GO 


34 

1.50 

$5.00 to $7.00 

2 5 

1.50 

5.00 to 7.00 

22 

1.50 

4.00 to 6.00 

J 7 

1.00 

4.00 

6 

1.00 

3 - 5 o 

12 

1.00 

4.00 

22 

1.50 

Special. 

12 

1.50 


40 

2.00 


50 

2.00 

it 

40 

2.00 

U 


Write Eben Dean, 70 Devonshire Street, Boston. 


Thos. Murphy. 

J. C. Morrison. 

J. Daley. 

Mrs. M. Short. 

Mrs. J. Burnham_ 

Miss Smith. 

Kenney & Bucknam 

F. B. Coleman. 

J. A. Edwards.. 

A. B. Sheraton. 

H. Hesslein.. 

D. McLeod. 

Jas. Lyons. 

Rufus Porter. 

Mrs. W. Redden. 

J. McIntosh. 

C. E. Farren. 

R. E. Davidson. 

A. P. Phinney. 

N. H. Phinney. 

D. Feindal. 

Geo. McSweeney_ 


Thos. Beech ., 


J. K. Martin. 

Foss & O’Connor. 

M. S. Gibson. 

V. H. Sweet. 

F. A. Jones. 


Avon House. 

Victoria Hotel. 

Clifton House. 

Somerset House ... 
Windsor House.... 

Acadia House. 

Central Hotel. 

Wolfville House ... 

Kent Lodge. 

American House.. 
Village Hotel. 


F. A. Jones. 

D. W. McCormick.. 
Thos. F. Raymond . 

J. L. McCloskey_ 

John Sime. 

A. N. Peters. 

J. C. Rickie. 

E. Mawley. 

J. B. Russ.. 

A. L. McKenzie .... 


Casson & Learment.. 

J. T. Winan. 

W. H. Risteen. 

T. A. Margeson. 

Forbes Jones. 

John Cox. 

Thos. Doran. 

F. Kelcup. 

W. Gibson.. 

Thos. Gibson. 

J. L. Franklyn. 

Mrs. C. R. Quin. 

LI. D, Farrell. 

Mrs. Haliburton. 

J W. Harris. 

Mrs. Newcombe. 



2.50 to 4.00 

Special. 


I.SO 

9.00 

25 

2.00 

7.00 to 10.00 

30 

1.50 

5.00 to 7.00 

20 

1.50 

5.00 to 7.00 

15 

1.30 

5.00 to 7.00 

u 

1.50 

5.00 to 7.00 

IOO 

2.00 to 3.00 

Special. 

50 

2.00 tO 2.50 

xo.oo to 14.00 

50 

2.00 tO 2.5O 

10.00 to 14.00 

130 

2.CO tO 3.OO 

10.50 to 16 OO 

200 

2.00 tO 4.OO 

10.00 to 16.00 

18 

I.50 

Special. 

20 

I.50 


38 

I.25 

5.00 

22 

I.OO 

5.00 

l6 

1.25 

5.00 

12 

1.25 

5.00 

18 

1.00 

5.00 

8 

1.25 

4.00 

8 

1.00 

3-50 

23 

1.50 

5.00 and 6.00 

50 

2.00 tO 3-00 

Special. 

30 

I.50 to 2.00 



Special. 

<< 

25 

I.OO 

4.00 to 5.00 

250 

2.00 to 4.00 

10.00 and up. 

150 

2.00 to 2.50 

10.00 and up. 

n8 

2.50 to 3.00 

Special. 

1 < 

86 

2.00 to 2.50 

76 

2.50 

10.00 and up. 

50 

3.00 

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68 

2.00 tO 2.50 

76 

3.00 

it 

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2.00 

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33 

3.00 

5.00 

30 

2.00 

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29 

1.50 

6.01 

20 

2.00 

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2 5 

1 - 5 ° 

7.00 

45 

1.50 


30 

1.50 


22 

1.50 

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20 

1.00 to 1.50 

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II 

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14 

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20 

1.50 

6.00 

18 

1.50 

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14 

7.50 

6.00 

12 

1.25 

Special. 

24 

125 

5.00 

14 

1.25 

5.00 


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up at home or come in from abroad, and the more 
bitter and vicious become the competition and the 
assaults, the more surely does The Travelers of 
Hartford rise above all, distance all competition, and solidify its 
ancient primacy. No year since 1865 has seen more widespread 
and determined efforts, by legitimate and illegitimate rivals at once, 
to divert a share of its business to their own channels ; the labor 
troubles in some parts have been formidable in handling and 
serious in cutting off its customers’ earnings: yet it shows a gain 
in every department and factor of its business for 1889, — in 
assets, in surplus, in both new Life, Accident, and Ticket busi¬ 
ness written, in the amount of all retained in force, and in pre¬ 
mium receipts. Whoever sows the seed or stirs up the ground, 
it seems evident The Travelers is to reap the bulk of the 
harvest. 













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Coxe Bros. & Co 


flIMners anb Shippers 

. . . . OF • • • • 

CROSS CREEK, 

SUGAR LOAF, 

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. ; - -— 

SHIPPING WHARVES 3 

Perth Amboy, South Amboy, Port Johnston. 

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70 Kilby Street,. BOSTON. 

420 Walnut Street, . . PHILADELPHIA. 

The Rookery,. CHICAGO. 

Coal and iron exchange, buffalo. 

91 Michigan Street, . MILWAUKEE. 


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General Agent. 

















ESTABLISHED 1825 . 


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TAUNTON, nVTA^SS. 


MANUFACTURERS OF 


YEI— LOW METAL = 

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H. B. JAGOE, C. E. LAMBERT, 

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merican Express Co. 


Is the only Company which has offices at all points in Maine, 
New Hampshire, Vermont (extending into Canada), and Mas¬ 
sachusetts, on and north of Boston & Albany R. R. 


THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. 

Is the only Company that has a contract with the Boston & 
Albany and New York Central Railroads for through business 

tothe WEST, NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST. 


THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. 

Attends to the PURCHASING OF GOODS or household supplies, to be returned by- 
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PAYS MONEY BY TELEGRAPH between all the company’s important city and 
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COLLECTS DRAFTS, BILLS, NOTES, COUPONS, DIVIDENDS, and other 
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BUYS and SELLS all classes of BONDS, executes orders in STOCKS and miscel¬ 
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The rates below are made between any of the American Express Company’s several 
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io cts.) to places reached by nearly all connecting Expresses. 


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FOR PACKAGES OF CURRENCY OR GOLD COIN RE¬ 
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50.25c. 

70....25 to 30c. 


$ 80....25 to 40c. 
100 — 25 to 45c. 
125....25 to 50c. 


$225....35 to 90c. 

250.. ..35 to $1.00 

300.. . .35 to 1.25 


$150.25 to 60c. 

175.30 to 75c. 

200.30 to 85c. 

Larger sums in much smaller proportion. 

N. B.—MONEY PACKAGES are delivered, as addressed, within the Company’s delivery 
limits of every city and village agency, FREE OF CHARGE. y 


PRINTED MATTER RATES) , , 

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from, or sent bv manufacturers, publishers or ( 12 
dealers, and prepaid to railroad points only. J 


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5 lbs.,. 

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to distance carried. 

(3 

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7 lbs.,. 

• 25c. 

to $1.00 


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Recently Enlarged and Greatly Improved. 

Pleasure Parties, Ladies and Families visiting BOSTON, 

WILL FIND THE 

OTATEfO combining: all the conveniences and substan- 
I M I a 1 tial comforts of a pleasant Home free alike 

I I ■■ from extravagant sliotv or still more extrava- 

gant charges, 

WHILE ITS VERY CONVENIENT LOCATION, 

DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE BOSTON AND ALBANY, 

AND ONLY ONE BLOCK FROM THE 

OLD COLONY and FALL RIVER LINES, three blocks only from the NEW YORK and 
NEW ENGLAND, and PROVIDENCE and STONINGTON STATIONS, and connecting 
directly by HORSE CARS every 5 minutes with all the Northern and Eastern Rail¬ 
roads and Steamboats, gives guests every possible facility and convenience of rapid and 
economical transfer from all points. 

UNEQUALLED BY ANY HOTEL IN BOSTON.^ 

Passengers to or from all Southern or Western Points, by either Boat or Rail, 

MAY SAVE ALL CARRIAGE FARES, 

While Sixteen Hundred Horse Cars, passing three sides of the Hotel, bring it in direct and 
close connection with every Railway Station and Steamboat 

AND THE THOUSAND ATTRACTIONS OF CITY, SEASHORE AND SUBURBS. 

Thus making a most convenient point to stop at on arriving in the city, saving all carriage fares, 
and, for those who desire to spend a day or week in shopping or visiting the thousand objects of 
art and interest, a most central, desirable, and convenient location, being only two minutes’ walk 
from all the 

Great Retail Stores, Theatres, Objects of Interest and Places of Amusement. 

For Special Rates, full particulars will be given, with maps, circulars, etc., on application to 

TILLY HAYNES, United States Hotel, BOSTON. 











































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California, Texas and Mexico 


gEMI-MONTHLY PARTIES. Personally conducted. 

Combining Comfort. Low Rates. Quick Time. Pull¬ 
man Sleeping Cars. Call on or address nearest Ticket 
Agent, or E. E. CURRIER, New England Agent Southern 
Pacific Co., 192 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 

No WHARFAGE. NO R E-H AN DLI IMG. LOW RATES. 

BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, 

tHe only direct line to Philadelphia. 

Sailing from Long Wharf, Boston, every Wednesday and Saturday at 3 P. M., and 
from Philadelphia Tuesday and Friday at 12 noon. This line makes direct connec¬ 
tion with Penn. R. R. for points West, and Phila. & S. M. S. S. Co. for Savannah. 

FREIGHT FORWARDED TO ALL POINTS WEST AND SOUTH- 
Attention is called to the fact that this is the only Line of Steamers plying 
between Boston and Philadelphia. 

FARE, INCLUDING MEALS AND ROOM, $10. ROUND TRIP, $18. 

For further information of Rates of Freight or Passage, apply at the office. Mark 
goods “ Care Winsor’s Line, Boston.” 

HENRY WINSOR & CO., Ag’ts, E. B. SAMPSON, Ag’t, 

338 So. Wharves, Philadelphia, Pa. 70 Long Wharf, Boston. 

THE BOSTON TRAVELLER 

A LIVE REPUBLICAN PAPER 

DEVOTED TO 

NEW ENGLAND AND 

NKW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES 

TRY IT FOR ONE MONTH, IT ONLY COSTS 75 CENTS. 

Address, TRAVELLER NEWSPAPER CO. 

31 State Street, BOSTON. 

THE" ONLY BOSTON BABER 

That gives all Provincial news, and the only paper that 
discusses intelligently Provincial topics of interest, is the 

British Hmerican Citi3en. 

UNIQUE, FEARLESS, INDEPENDENT, FRANK. 

Published Weekly at $2.00 per year. For sale by all newsdealers at 5 cents. 


R. J. LONG, Editor. 


7 BROMFIELD ST., BOSTON. 





















Loring, Short & Harmon, 


WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 

Statior^e^ 

AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS, 

DEALERS IN PAPER HANGINGS. PORTLAND, ME. 



PORTLAND STEAM PACKET CO. 

LINE OF FIRST-CLASS STEAMERS 

Between Boston and Portland. 


One of the Steamers—Portland, Tremont, Forest City—will leave India Wharf, Bos¬ 
ton, for Portland every evening at 7.00 P. M., (except Sundays) connecting, on arrival, 
with Maine Central, Knox & Lincoln, Portland & Ogdensburg, Grand Trunk, and 
Portland & Rochester Railroads, and with Bangor & Machias Steamers for points on 
Coast of Maine. Direct and desirable route to Lewiston, Auburn, Bangor, and all 
points East and North. Through tickets at low rates. Leave Portland for Boston every 
evening at 7.00 o’clock, (except Sundays) connecting, on arrival, with the earliest trains 
on all diverging lines. From June 15th to September 15th daily, Sundays included. 


|ggT= The new Steamer Portland, recently added to this line, is the largest and finest 
steamer in the East. 

This line affords a most desirable route to the Rangeley Lakes, through by daylight 
from Portland. The standard route for comfort and pleasure to Lewiston, Poland 
Springs, Mount Desert, Bethel, Gorham, N. H., North Conway, Crawford’s, Fabyan’s, 
etc. Close connections at Portland with all diverging lines, and through tickets to 
points North and East. j. p LIS GOMB, 

J. B. COYLE, Gen’l Agent and Treasurer. 

Manager. C. P. WILLIAM, 

General Offices—PORTLAND, ME. Agent, India Wharf, Boston. 


Established 1873 . 

HOEGG’S 

BOSTON BAKED BEANS,- 

DOMINION SUGAR CORN, » 

—-STERLING LOBSTER, 

AND ALL CANNED GOODS BEARING OUR BRANDS. 

DOMINION AND STERLING ARE UNEXCELLED. 


DEERING CENTER, ME. 
















”5 

ESTABLISHED 1828. 



ORIGINAL MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN 


Vulcanized Rubber Belting, Hose, Packing, 

and Mechanical Rubber Goods, 

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

256 to 260 DEVONSHIRE STREET, - BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. 

FACTORIES, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. 


SALESROOMS ; 


ioo Chamber Street, - - - - New York. 

109 Madison Street, - Chicago, Ill. 

15 North 4th Street, - - Philadelphia, Pa. 

90 Pearl Street, - - - Buffalo, N. Y. 

141 Main Street, - Cincinnati, O. 

9th and Washington Avenue, - St. Louis, Mo. 

1221 Union Avenue, - - Kansas City, Mo. 

380 East Water Street, - - Milwaukee, Wis. 

Cor. Fourth and Wacouta Streets, St. Paul, Minn. 
84' Canal Street, ... New Orleans, La. 

2 and 4 California Street, - San Francisco, Cal. 

200 Washington Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. 
139 South Meridian Street, - Indianapolis, Ind. 

8 and 10 Exchange Street, - - Portland, Me. 

5 State Street,.Bangor, Me. 

49 Upper Water Street, - Halifax, N. S. 

Geo. A. Fernald & Co. 

SEAVER % 

BANKERS. 

* HOUSE, 

Eastern and Western Municipal 

255 TREMONT ST. 

and Water Bonds. 


DEBENTURE BONDS, 

ONLY A SHORT DISTANCE FROM 

and Highest Grade Western Farm 

BOSTON COMMON. 

and City Mortgages. 

TERMS, 

MEMBERS BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE. 

$1.25 and $1.50 pe d r ay . 

Orders for purchase or sale carefully 


executed. 

A Quiet, Home-Like Hotel 

20 WATER STREET 

MRS. HUTCHINSON, 

BOSTON, MASS. 

PROPRIETRESS. 
























BURGESS, FOBES & CO. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

pure U/f?ite Lead,— — 

— —Portland Liquid pair>t5. 


These paints are mixed ready for use. They are brilliant and durable, and are prepared 

in all the desirable shades. 


PORTLAND COACH COLORS, PORTLAND FINE COLORS IN OILS, 

PORTLAND STAINS. 


IMPORTERS OF - 

Colors, Uarnisbes, Etc. 


EVERYTHING INTHE PAINTLINE CARRIEDIN FULL STOCK. 


WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE: 
106 to 112 Commercial Street, 


FACTORY: 

55 Munjoy, Wilson and Beckett Sts., 


PORTLAND, ME. 


WHITE MOUNTAINS. 

THE KEARSARGE, North Conway, N. H. 

Two hours from Portland on the White Mountain Division of Maine Central R. R. 


This well-known hotel will open for the season June 14, 1890, under entirely new man¬ 
agement. Its enviable location with charming mountain and intervale views in every 
direction. First-class table and service especially recommended it to the tourist. 


TERMS, $3.00 and $3.50 PER DAY, Specia l n r d t juiy orJune 

Hartshorn <& Ricker, Managers, 


SCARBORO MINERAL SPRING WATER. 


This is the perfection of Table Waters, with mineral properties unequaled for the cure of 
Bright s Disease, Kidnev and Liver Troubles of all kinds, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, DroDsv 
Scrofula, and General Debility. ’ y 3 ' 


ANALYSIS. 

i U. S. Gallon (231 cubic inches) contains: 

Sulphate of Potash, . 

Sulphate of Lime, 

Chloride of Sodium, . . 

Bicarbonate of Soda, 

Bicarbonate of Lime, . ! 

Bicarbonate of Magnesia, 
Carbonate of Iron, 

Alumnia, \ 

Silicic Acid in Solution, . 


0.840 Grains. 
0.818 “ 

1.056 “ 

1.271 “ 

1.651 

0.933 “ 

1-539 

traces. 

0.981 “ 


Total, 

it c A11 w K ater fr . es . h from the spring, and for sale by Druggists and Grocers 
U. S., or by applying to the general agent of the Scarboro Mineral Water Co, 


9.092 

throughout the 
Portland, Me. 









































Telephone No. 761. 


Incorporated August 8, 1846. 


Portland . Company 


No. 98 Fore Street, - PORTLAND, Me. 

Locomotives, iviariNe. and stationary eNgiNes, 
railroad cars, sNoW pLoWs, HigH and 
Low PRESSURE BOILERS, TANKS, 
dredging machinery, 

MACHINERY for the MANUFACTURE of 

Wood pULp and fibre Ware, 
mill geariNg and sHaftiNg. 

EDWARD H. DAVIS, President. GEO. F. MORSE, Agent and Treasurer. 


CASCO BAY 

STEAMBOAT CO. 

Regular Daily Mail Line Between Port¬ 
land, Maine, and the Islands of 
Casco Bay. 


The only line running to the Islands all the 
year round. This company affords unrivaled 
facilities for transportation to Peaks, Little 
and Great Diamond, and Long Islands by 
their new and handsome fleet of steamers, 
consisting of the Forest City, Forest Queen, 
Emita and Cadet. During the summer 
months a regular ferry is established, leaving 
the city nearly every half hour, Sundays in¬ 
cluded. On and after June 23, 1890, the first 
boat will leave Portland at 5.30 A. M.; last 
boat 9.45 P. M. Returning, the first boat 
arrives at Portland at 6.30 P. M., last boat 
n.30 P. M., connecting with railroads diverg¬ 
ing by street cars at head of wharf. 

General office, Custom House Wharf. 

C. W. T. GODING, 

General Manager. 


F. A. WALDRON & SON, 

FORMERLY 

WALDRON & TRUE, 

GRAIN 

AND 

FLOUR 

DEALERS, 

Nos. 4, 5, 6, & 7 Union Wharf, 

PORTLAND, me. 

TELEPHONE 607 A. 














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THE CITY HOTEL, 

CONGRESS SQUARE, - - - PORTLAND, MAINE. 


IE- O. S^WEET. 


STREET CARS TO 
AND FROM 


BOSTON AND MAINE R. R. WHITE MOUNTAINS R. R. 
MAINE CENTRAL R. R. GRAND TRUNK R. R. 

AND ALL STEAMBOAT LINES. 


PASS THE HOTEL 


DIRECT. 


HACKS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS. 


LIVERY CONNECTED. 




ECENTLY RENOVATED THROUGHOUT- ELECTRIC 

Light, beLLs, aNd all modern improvements. 


UNder New MANAGEMENT- 



HOTEL WALDO, 

LITTLE CHEBEAGUE ISLAND, 

CASCO BAY, MAINE. 


Is situated about six miles from Portland, and is reached by steamers 
from that city. The island, with its groves and bathing beach, is the gem of 
the many beautiful places in the Bay, and is without blemish. The hotel 
caters especially to family patronage, and is owned by the Waldo Company, 
incorporated under the laws of Maine, and has lately been reorganized, and the 
Hotel greatly improved. No picnics or excursions allowed on the island. 
Bowling alleys, billiard and pool rooms, tennis grounds, bath houses, boats, 
etc., etc. Cuisine and service unexcelled. Open June 23d. For terms apply to 

HORACE S. CROWELL, President, 

216 Washington Street, corner of State Street, BOSTON, MASS. 

Or at the Hotel. 


































FRONTIER STEAMBOAT CO. 


1890. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 1890. 


S teamer ROSE STANDISH 

Leaves Calais every morning (Sundays excepted), 
touching at Robbinston and St. Andrews. Connecting 
at Eastport with the “ International Steamers ’’ for 

St. John, Portland, and Boston. 

Ferry at Eastport for Lubecand Campobello. 

Stage at Lubec for Machias. 

Stage at Eastport for Pembroke. 


Returning, leave Eastport about noon, or on ar¬ 
rival of International Steamer, touching at St. Andrews 
and Robbinston. Connecting at Calais with 

St. Croix and Penobscot R’y for Princeton and Grand Lake Streams. 
New Brunswick R’y for Hamilton and Woodstock. 

. Shore Line R’y for St. George. 

For further information see weekly time cards, or 
apply to the following Local Agents : 

JOHN PENDLEBURG, Ag’t, L. W. PINE, Ag’t, 

St. Andrews, N. B. Eastport, Me. 

JAS. L. THOMPSON, Manager, Calais, Me. 













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CAMPOBELLO TRT. A TsTTO 

TYN-Y-COED HOTEL. 


THIS ATTRACTIVE SUMMER RESORT WILL BE OPEN FOR 
VISITORS JULY 1st. 


r|7HE Hotel, with its annex, is pleasantly sit¬ 
uated near the water’s edge, on a bluff 
seventy-five feet above the level of the sea. It is 
provided with all the comforts of a refined 
home, and beautifully furnished throughout. 


access MAY be Had by the fine steamers 
of THE international Line, which Leave 

COMMERCIAL WHARF, BOSTON, AT 8.30 A. Mm 
MONDAYS, Wednesdays, aNd Fridays, aNd 
PORTLAND THE same EVENlNCS AT 5.00. 

also via steamer olivette from boston 

to EASTPORT, VIA BAR HARBOR ON SATUR¬ 
DAYS. 

the 12.30 and 1.00 O’CLOCK TRAINS VIA THE 
BOSTON <Sc MAINE RAILROAD (eastern ANd West¬ 
ern divisions\ connect with the steamers 
AT PORTLAND. BACGACE CHECKED THROUCH 
to CAMPOBELLO. 


Applications for rooms for the season of 1890 
may be made to 

T. A. BARKER, 

Care ALEX. S. PORTER, 

27 State Street, BOSTON. 








CAMPOBELLO ISLAND.— EASTPORT, AS SEEN FROM FRIAR’S HEAD. 



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NORTH LUBEC 

IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. 

COMPOSED OF PROMINENT YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 
MEN, AND OWNING FIVE HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND, 

AND ELEVEN HOUSES AND OUT-BUILDINGS 
AT NORTH LUBEC, MAINE. 

The Company is organized for the purpose of developing the 

New England Young Men’s Christian Summer Encampment. 

A Hotel and Wharf are being built, and a Fleet of Boats have been purchased. 
Last season 200 persons attended the Encampment. 

Season ©pens, Snip 1st. ©loses, ©ctober 1st. 

Summer Encampment, august 9tb, = 24tb. 

OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY: 

JOHN H. APPLETON, Cambridge, Mass.,.President. 

W. S. COREY. Portland, Maine,.Secretary. 

T. T. HAZELWOOD, Haverhill, Mass.,.Treasurer. 

CAPITAL STOCK, - - $50,000, 

5,000 SHARES. 

Stock selling at par. $10.00 per share. Special favors granted to Stockholders. 
Correspond with officers of the Company for further information. 


EASTPORT and PASSAMAQUODDY 


A Collection of Historical and Biographical Sketches, compiled by 

WILLIAM HENRY KILBY, 

With notes and additions. Illustrated with numerous cuts of Maps, 
Churches, Public Buildings, Residences, etc. 

12 mo. ; 505 pages. Price, $2.50. 


PUBLISHED BY 


E. E. SHEAD & CO. 

EAST PORT, MAINE. 













































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Radial? paeifit; Railway 

THE GMT TOURIST ROUTE 


'O all points in Canada and the United States. It is the best equipped line in 

the World. 


Write for copies of “ Summer Tours,” “ Fishing and Shooting,” and 
other publications. 


D. McNICOLL, 

General Passenger Agent, 

Montreal, Canada. 


c. e. McPherson, 

District Passenger Ag’t, 

211 Washington St., 
Boston, Mass. 


Take; the 



Brunswick 



from st JOHN _°5_ ST. ANDREWS ■ TO • 

VANCEBORO, HO ULTON, FORT FAIRFIELD. . 

CARIBOU, and PR ESQUE ISLE, Me., F REDERICTON, 
WOODSTOCK, FLORE NC EVILLE, KENT , 

BATE KILBURN, PERTH, ANDOVER, 

GRAND FALLS_andTDMUNDSTON, N. B. 


51?e Oply l^oute to tt?e Celebrated Fis^i^ apd JHuptip^ 
Resorts of florttyen? /T\aipe apd flew Brupsu/ieK- 


F\ W. CRAM, 

General Manager. 


A. J. HEATH, 

General Passenger Agent. 




















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Windsor & Annapolis R’y. 

.THE “ LAND OF EVANGELINE ” ROUTE. 

The Favorite Route between Nova Scotia and the United States and Canada. 


TRAVELLERS and VISITORS to the Maritime Provinces should avail themselves of 
the special inducements offered by this old established and popular route. It is shorter than 
any other by 86 miles, and is UNRIVALLED in BEAUTY and VARIETY of SCENERY. 

The railway traverses the fertile and picturesque valleys of the Annapolis and Cornwallis 
Rivers, the widely famed “GARDEN OF NOVA SCOTIA,” and the romantic and cele¬ 
brated LAND OF EVANGELINE immortalized in Longfellow’s pathetic story. 

****** 

Down the long street she passed with her chaplet of beads and her missal, 

Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and the ear-rings, 

Brought in the olden times from France. 

****** 

“Sunshine of Saint Eulalie ” was she called ; for that was the sunshine, 

Which, as the farmers believed, would load their orchards with apples. 

****** 

This was the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it 
Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman ? 

Close connection is made at Annapolis with the International, Yarmouth and Bay of Fundy 
Steamship Companies to all points in the United States and Canada; at Middleton with the 
trains of the Nova Scotia Central Railway for the South Coast, and at Windsor Junction and 
Halifax with Intercolonial and Canadian Pacific trains for all points West. 

ASK ROF? TICKETS 

Via the WINDSOR & ANNAPOLIS RAILWAY, at Boston & Maine R. R. Office at 
Boston; at the Maine Central R. R. Offices at Portland, Danville Junction, Bangor, etc. ; on 
board the Steamers of the International and Bay of Fundy and Yarmouth Steamship Co.’s ; 
at Reed’s Wharf, St. John, N. B. ; at North Street Depot, and at 126 Hollis Street, Halifax, 
opposite the Halifax Hotel. 

For further information as to fares, routes, etc., apply to Station Agents of the Company, or to 

P. GIFKINS, K. SUTHERLAND, W. R. CAMPBELL, 

Gen'l Pass'r Agent , Resident Manager , Gen'l Manager and Sec'y , 

KENTVILLE, N. S. KENTVILLE, N. S. KENTVILLE, N. S. 


NOVA SCOTIA CENTRAL RAILWAY, 


Connecting with the Windsor & Annapolis Railway at Middleton and 
running across the Province to the Atlantic Coast at 
Bridgewater and Lunenburg. 


This new railway has an unequalled equipment of coaches, par¬ 
ticularly constructed for summer tourists. 


The country opened up abounds in excellent fishing and 
hunting, picturesque scenery all along the line. From Bridge- 
water is the shortest way to the new gold fields of Caledonia 
and Molega, the richest in Nova Scotia. 

R. H. FRASER, Traffic Sup’t. GEORGE W. BEDFORD, 

R. M. J. McGILL, Gen’l Passenger Agent. General Manager. 

Plead. Office at Bridgewater. 













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Intercolonial Railway 

OF CANADA. 


THE POPULAR AND FASHIONABLE ROUTE FOR CANADIAN AND UNITED 

STATES SUMMER TRAVEL. 

The Intercolonial traverses for two hundred 
miles the south shore of the majestic Saint 
Lawrence, thence through the famous lake, 
mountain, and valley region of the Metapedia 
and Restigouche Rivers, unequaled for mag¬ 
nificent scenery, and along the beautiful and 
picturesque shores of the Baie De Chaleur and 
Gulf of St. Lawrence, abounding in exhaustless 
salmon and trout streams. 


NEW AND ELEGANT BDFFET SLEEPING AND DAY CARS. 

- ALSO - 

FIRST-CLASS AND SMOKING CARS 

ON ALL THROUGH TRAINS. 

THROUGH EXPRESS-TRAIN CARS BRILLIANTLY 
LIGHTED BY ELECTRICITY. 

All the popular summer sea-bathing and health-restoring resorts of 
Canada are along this line, notable among which are Riviere de Loup, 
Cacouna, Bic, Metis, Campbellton, Dalhousie, Bathurst, St. John, 
Shediac, and Halifax. 



Through Express Trains, daily, between 
Quebec, Halifax, N. S., and St. John, N. B., 
and close connections made for Baie de Chaleur, 
Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton points, 
also with Steamer “Beaver” at Pictou for the 
Magdalen Islands. Close connections made at 
Quebec with the Grand Trunk and Canadian 
Pacific Railways, and at Quebec and Riviere 
du Loup with the steamers between Montreal, 
Quebec, and the far-famed Saguenay River. 

Illustrated Guide-Books to the Intercolonial Railway, with maps, hotel- 
lists, etc., also time-tables, showing rail and steamboat connections, can be had on 
application to city agents, or of 

A. BUSBY, D. POTTINGER, 

Gen'l Passenger Agent. Chief Superintendent. 



MONCTON, N. B. 












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TO 

NOVA SCOTIA ™ 

St. JOHN, N. B. 


.AND THE. 

Bay of Fundy Steamship Company 

(LIMITE d) . 


JfT 


HE fine Iron Steamer “City of Monticello” leaves St. John every week¬ 
day except Tuesday at 7.30 A. M., local time, for Digby, there connecting 
with the Western Counties Railway for Yarmouth and points West. 
From Digby the Steamer proceeds to Annapolis, sixteen miles, through one of 
the most picturesque Rivers in North America, connecting with the Windsor & 
Annapolis Railway, which traverses the far-famed “ Land of Evangeline ” 
to Halifax and points East. 

Returning, Steamer leaves Annapolis and Digby on the same days, and is due 
at St. John from 7.00 to 8.00 P. M. 

Connection made at St. John with the “All-Rail Line” to Bangor, Port¬ 
land and Boston, with the Steamers of the International Steamship Co., 
to Eastport, Portland and Boston, with Canada Pacific for Montreal, 
Intercolonial to Moncton, Quebec, etc., the Grand Southern R. R. for 
St. George and St. Stephen, New Brunswick R. R. to Bangor and points 
West, and the New York, Maine, and New Brunswick Steamship Co., 
which Line will be opened about the 1st of June, 1890. 


HOWARD D. TROOP, .... President and Manager, 

ST. JOHN, N. B. 












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THE RHINE OF AMERICA. 

River Saint John. 

SAINT JOHN AND FREDERICTON. 

Fare, One Dollar. 

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 

Until further notice, one of the splendid Mail Steamers, of this line, will 

LEAVE INDIANTOWN 

FOR FREDERICTON, (GIBSON), 

and intermediate landings, every morning (Sundays excepted), at nine o’clock 
(local time), and will 

LEAVE FREDERICTON 

FOR SAINT JOHN (INDIANTOWN), 

and intermediate landings, every morning (Sundays excepted), at eight o’clock 
(local time), due at Indiantown at 3 P. M. 


Connections are made with trains of the 

New Brunswick Railway, 

For Woodstock, Aroostook, Grand Falls, Edmunston, Etc. 

Northern and Western Railway, 

For Doaktown, Chatham, Etc., and with 

Steamer “ Florenceville, ’ ’ 

(While water is high) for Eel River, Woodstock, Etc., and “ 

Steamers of the International Steamship Co., 

For and from Portland, Boston, and other points in the United States and 
Canada. 


Through tickets, single and return, issued to all stations at 
special reduced rates. 


Connections made with the horse-cars of “ St. John City Railway,” which run 
to and from steamboat landing. Fare only five cents to any point in St. John or 
Portland on their route. 

For further information, see folder with map of river, to be obtained at 
offices of the International Steamship Co., at railroad stations, and at hotels. 


R. B. HUMPHREY, Manager. 

Head Office at Union Line Wharf, Indiantown, 

ST. JOHN, N. B. 











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l/ietoria j-lotel 

KING STREET, 

St.John, N. B. 


D. IV. McCORMICK, 


PROPRIETOR. 











OYAL HOTEL, 


ST. JOHN, N. B. 



King Street,- 


T. F. RAYMOND, 


Proprietor. 
















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ufferin, 


st. John, M. b. 


Cen trally Located ,. 

O pposite King’s Square. 

Eleqantly Furnished. 

TABLE C]N5URPA.S.SEb. 

FIRST * CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. 


FRED A. JONES, Proprietor. 


|HE MONCTON SUGAR REFINING CO. 

=^LIMITED.= - = 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Granula ted 

AND 

TeLLOIVEXTRA “C.” 


JOHN L. HARRIS, JOHN McKENZIE, 

President. Secretary. 

C. P. HARRIS, Treasurer, 

MONCTON, N. B. 
















BOSTON & GLOUCESTER 


■ - Steamboat co. 


FOR 

FREIGHT and PASSENGERS. 

Making Connections with all Railroad 
and Steamship Lines out of 
Boston. 


Through Rates and Bills of Lading Given 
to all Points West and South. 


Steamers Leave Boston and Gloucester 
Daily During the Year, Sun¬ 
days Excepted. 


HENRY M. WHITNEY, President. 

E. S. MERCHANT, Treas. and Agent, Boston. 

ABBOTT COFFIN, Agent, Gloucester. 


JAMES QUINN. THOMAS B. MERRILL. 

QUINN & CO. 

Boiler Makers 

Blacksmiths and Machinists, 

Special Attention Given to Repairs. 

ENGINEERS’ SUPPLIES 


PLATE IRON CUT TO DIMENSIONS 
FOR ANY PURPOSE. 


Correspondence solicited regarding all kinds 
of Iron Work. 

Office 49 Commercial St., cor. Franklin 

PORTLAND, ME. 


HALIFAX HOTEL, 

HALIFAX, N. S. 

This hotel has been thoroughly renovated and enlarged by an 
addition of another wing, taking in the entire width of the block 
from Hollis to Water Street. 

ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS 

being added, making this hotel one of the largest and finest in 
Canada. The climate in Halifax 

CANNOT BE SURPASSED, 

and the Halifax Hotel commands the finest view of the mag¬ 
nificent harbor. 


FT. HESSLEIN & SONS, Proprietors. 


















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sm 


X QV 

Queen • Hotel= 

• • • FREDERICTON, N. B. 


J. A. EDE>WARDS, - Proprietor. 

REDBRICTON , N. B., is situated about SO 
mi les nort h, from St. John, and is reached. 
by the Union Line of Steamers an d tbe New 
Brunswick Railway. It is tbe Ca pital of tbe 
Province, and as a Summer Resort is very 
pleasantly situated. 


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® VICTORIA HOTEL, ® 

TRURO, N. S. WALTER S. CASSON, Prop'r. 


Modern Furnishings. Cuisine Unexcelled. Sample Rooms. 


Commercial travellers, tourists, and visitors to the Maritime Provinces, stopping over 
at Truro, will find this hotel offers superior advantages, being centrally located and in 
close proximity to the celebrated Victoria Park ; one of Nature’s most beautiful spots. 

Splendid drives. Beautiful scenery. Every attention paid to guests. Livery stable 
in connection. J 


Terrace 

Parker 

HO TEL, 

House, 

AMHERST, N. S. 

OUTRAN! ST., OPPOSITE STATION. 

TRURO, - nova scojia. 

First-Class Leading House. 

* this house has been newly fitted * 

* THROUGHOUT, WITH ALL MODERN * 

* * * CONVENIENCES. * * * 

One Minute's Walk from Station. 

ELECTRIC LIGHT, 

STEAM HEAT, 

AND BATH ROOMS. 

N. C. CALHOUN, 

All accommodations for the travelling 
public. 

Proprietor. 

For Rates see Hotel Guide. 

Sample Rooms. Baggage Transferred Free. 

MRS. CHAS. SCHROEDER, Proprietress. 


HOTEL LEARMENT, 


Opposite 

I. C. R. STATION. 


TRURO, N. S. 


A. H. LEARMENT, 
Proprietor. 


NEWLY FURNISHED THROUGHOUT. 

WITH ALL THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. 
TABLE FIRST-CLASS. 

LARGE AND COMMODIOUS SLEEPING ROOMS. 

ELECTRIC LIGHTS. BATH ROOMS. 


Head-quarters for Tourists and Commercial Travellers . 































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KING’S HOTEL, 

LUNENBURG, N. S- 


T HIS new and popular hotel is centrally located in the town of Lunenburg, the 
deep water terminus of the N. S. C. Railroad, and within three, minutes walk 
of station and steamboat landing, and has recently been fitted with all. modern 
improvements, new and elegant furniture, bath rooms, water closets, electric lights, 
and heated throughout with hot water. Sample rooms for commercial men. . Boat¬ 
ing and bathing in the vicinity. Guests will receive every attention, and will find 
this hotel first-class in every respect. 

J. W. KING, Proprietor. 


FAIRVIEW HOUSE, 

J. L. DOYLE, Manager, - BRIDGEWATER, N. S. 


THE best view of Bridgewater can be obtained from this house. It is situated on 
* an elevation taking in a fine view of the river, town, and surrounding country 
for miles. Within four minutes’ walk of the railway station and business 
part of the town. 


CLIFTON HOUSE, 

ANNAPOLIS, N. S. 


beaUtifOL river View aNd Near tHe old garrison ground. 


T his popular hotel affords every comfort and convenience to the travelling- public. Well 
furnished parlors and sleeping apartments. Large dining-room, and liberally supplied 
tables. 


office of staiLiNg’s coach Line to caLedoNia aNd Liverpool. 

BEST OF LIVERY TEAMS SUPPLIED ON SHORT NOTICE. 
CARRIAGES AND BAGGAGE EXPRESS MEET ALL BOATS AND TRAINS. 

wm. McClelland. 


JOHN DALEY, 

PROPRIETOR- 


ROYAL HOTEL, 


DIGBY, 

Nova scotia 


I N addition to advantages hitherto offered to the travelling public at this first-class 
and long established house, it has been lately enlarged and improved, and a much 
larger number of guests can be accommodated than formerly. 

Modern Appurtenance^- --— 

- _Fir$t~c]a££ Appointment^. 

SAMPLE, BATH, AND SHAVING ROOMS. BOATS, ETC. 

Hf^gPOnly one minute’s walk from the railway station, and three from the steamboat 
wharf. 




























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HOTEL BRUNSWICK, 

MONCTON, N. B. 

GEO. McSWEENEY, Proprietor. - - GEO. D. FUCHS, Manager. 

T HE above first-class hotel, situated a few minutes’ walk from the I. C. R. depot, has 
been thoroughly renovated and furnished with all the modern conveniences, 
electric light and electric bells, hot and cold baths, everything in the way of 
comfort, spacious parlor, ladies’ room, office, etc., and the table ranks second to 
none in the Lower Provinces. A rest at Moncton would be quite a treat. The hotel 
has accommodation for 150 guests, with or without adjoining rooms, or rooms en suite. 
This hotel is famed throughout the Dominion and the United States, and every atten¬ 
tion is given to the pleasure seeker. A first-class livery is attached to the establishment, 
and the surroundings are well worth inspection. 


PORTER HOUSE, 

RUFUS PORTER, Proprietor. 

MAIN STREET, KENTVILLE, N. S. 


HTHIS HOTEL is fitted up with every 
modern convenience. 

Transient and permanent boarders ac¬ 
commodated at the most reasonable 
rates. 

Commercial travellers especially cared 
for. 

Teams to convey travellers to and 
from every train. 

FIRST-CLASS SAMPLE ROOMS. 

The best livery stable in the county 
in connection. 

Teams to convey guests to and from 
the station without extra charge. 


COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 

MONCTON, N. E 5 . 

at. - JONES, - Proprietor. 

CENTRALLY LOCATED, AND CLOSE TO POST-OFFICE, CUSTOM HOUSE, Etc. 
RECENTLY ENLARGED AND REFITTED. ELECTRIC BELLS, AND ALL 
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. SAMPLE ROOM, AND 
W. U. TELEGRAPH IN CONNECTION. 


THE 

BEDFORD HOTEL 

BEDFORD, N. S. 


The Village of Bedford is situated at the 
head of Bedford Basin, 10 miles from 
Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, 
which is made easy of access by numer¬ 
ous trains, boats, etc. 


The hotel, standing on the banks of 
the basin, commands an unsurpassed 
view of the harbor and surrounding 
country. 


The house itself has been newly furn¬ 
ished, electric lights, bath rooms, tele¬ 
graph, telephone, etc., beautiful drives, 
good fishing. 

J. C. Morrison, Prop’r. 


Free Hack in Attendance to and from all Passenger Trains. 

















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STOP A'T the; 

New Glasgow, N. S. 

THOS. BEECH, Proprietor. 

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, is situated 
between Truro and Pictou, and is one of 

THE FLOURISHING CENTERS OF THE EAST. . 


AMERICAN HOUSE* 

MIDDLETON, N. S. 

D. FEINDEL, - - Proprietor. 

BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL IN THE ANNAPOLIS VALLEY. SPECIAL 
ATTENTION PAID TO THE WANTS OF SUMMER TOURISTS AND 
COM M ERCIAL TRAVELLERS. GOOD STABLE I N CON N ECTION. TEAMS 
IN WAITING AT ALL TRAINS. 


LYONS HOTEL, kentvi LLE, N. S. 

(DIRECTLY OPPOSITE RAILWAY STATION.) 


CXIENSIVE improvements having just been completed in this house, it now 
^ possesses 32 bedrooms, 1 ladies’ and 2 gentlemen’s parlors, 6 
sample rooms and billiard rooms. These rooms are all furnished in the most 
modern style. This house is conducted on 

-FIRST - CLASS PRINCIPLES, -- 

and it will be found, outside of the Queen or Halifax Hotels, equal, if not super¬ 
ior, to any in the Province. Livery stable in connection. 

D. NToIvEOD, Proprietor. 


LUNENBURG & HALIFAX STEAM PACKET CO. 


LIMITED. 


The S. S. Electro, Capt. R. Heisler, will make two trips each week between Lunenburg and 
Halifax, viz.: Leave Halifax, Mondays and Thursdays, at 9.00 A. M. Leave Lunen- 
burg, Tuesday and Friday (after arrival of morning train). On Wednesday steamer 
will leave Halifax at 6 A. M. for Mahone Bay, calling at Prospect Harbor and Chester on her 
way up returning same day. As the above steamer connects with S. S. Halifax for Boston 
which leaves every Wednesday morning, passengers can go onboard at once without extra 
charge. 1 lckets for Boston issued at the Lunenburg agency. Quickest and cheapest way to 
go. Only one night at sea. J 

Also connects with Nova Scotia Central Railroad. 

tj tickets to Bridgewater and Mahone Bay. Tickets to Bridgewater, $2.00 ; Mahone 

Bay, $1.50. freight forwarded to all points ori'Nova Scotia Central Railway. 

JAS. R. RUDOLPH, President. j. j, McLACHLAN, Agent, Lunenburg. 

HENRY LANE, Agent, Mahone Bay. BLACK BROS. & CO., Agents, Halifax. 























The Ottawa H ouse, 

• 7 

Cushing’s Island, - Portland Harbor. 


|§\AS unquestionably one of the finest locations to be found on the Atlantic 
^ coast. The island is full of interest and beauty. 


The New Ottawa House, 

which was built in the spring of 1888, has accommodations for three 
hundred guests, and is acknowledged to be one of the finest hotels on the 
coast of Maine. It is situated on elevated ground, commanding magnifi¬ 
cent views of the ocean and bay, the neighboring islands and city, the 
shore of Cape Elizabeth, and, in the distance, the lofty peaks of the 
White Mountains. 

Preble House, Portland, /Aaiqe, 

Noted for its fine location. Has always been a favorite stopping place 
for summer tourists. For particulars, address 

/A. S. GIBSON, or /A. S. GIBSON, 

Ottawa House, CUSHING’S ISLAND, Me. PORTLAND, Me. 


Charlottetown Steam Navigation Co. 

ivirvriTKD. 


PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 

-VIA.- 

POINT du CHENE AND PICTOU. 


-——SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, 1890. - 

One of the fine side wheel steamers of this company, will leave Summerside at 8.00 
A. M. daily, Sundays excepted, for Point du Chene. Returning, will leave Point du 
Chene on arrival of morning train from St. John. 

Leave Charlottetown at 6.00 A. M. daily, Sundays excepted, for Pictou. Returning, 
leave Pictou daily on arrival of morning train from Halifax. 

Passengers for St. John and intermediate points leave Charlottetown at 6.00 A. M. by 
rail, connecting with steamer at Summerside for Point du Chene, arriving at St. John 
same evening. 

FRED W. HALES, Manager, 

CHARLOTTETOWN. 

















Grand Central Hotel 


fimerieai? piai?, 

$3.50, $3.00 AND $2.50 PER DAY. 


^uropeai? piar^, 

. . . $1.00 AND UPWARDS. 


667 TO 677 BROADWAY, 


NEW YORK. 


FAYMAN Sr SPRAGUE, - - Proprietors. 

CLIFTON HOUSE, 

74 Princess and 143 Germain Sts. ST. JOHN, N. B. 


CENTRALLY LOCATED. 

KIN KEY FURNISHED. 

MODERATE RATES. 


ALEX. N. PETERS, - - Proprietor. 

--) VARI ETY STORE. (- 

B. S. MARTIN & SON, 

IE!_A_ S T IE? O HR,IMUE. 

D'A^sroStoues, Ji^u/are, hardware, (Jro^eries, 

STEAM FITTINGS AND PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES. 

Jobbing of all kinds-) SARDINE SUPPLIES (-at Shortest Notice. 

Agents for Rubber Hose, Royal Clarion Range_ . ‘ 

-and THE SPENCE HOT WATER HEATER 


FANCY INDIAN BASKETS AND HAMMOCKS. 


CROCKERY, GLASSWARE AND LAMPS. 

















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NORTH AUBURN, MAINE. 


The AUBURN SPRING HOTEL. 


T the celebrated Auburn Springs, a modern 
house, with accommodations for two hun¬ 
dred guests, will be opened after June 14, 
1890, under the management of the well- 
known and popular landlord, E. J. Freeman 
of Boston. The house is provided with 
steam heat, gas, scientific sanitary appliances, 
and the famous mineral spring water is used 
for all purposes. For circulars giving full in¬ 
formation of the house, terms, etc., and medic¬ 
inal properties of the water, address Auburn 
Mineral Spring Co., 156 Devonshire Street, 
Boston, or at the hotel after June 10, 189a. 

LOCATION.—This new and commodious 
hotel is located at the head of the beautiful 
Lake Auburn. It stands on an elevation 100 
feet above the level of the lake, and nearly 
900 feet above the level of the sea. A broad 
piazza surrounds the house, which is shaded 
by large and beautiful old forest trees; groves 
of pine and oak are about the grounds. Near 
the hotel, about fifty rods distant, is the 
Spring House. A commanding view of the 
lake and the beautiful and picturesque scenery 
which surrounds it on all sides may be had 
from all parts of the house. Good judges say, 
that to those seeking rest, comfort, health, 
and pleasure, this will be found one of the 
most delightful spots on earth. All conven- 
iencies that are furnished at any hotel for the 
comfort and enjoyment of guests will be 
found here. No pains will be spared to make 
this a home for all. 

The prices will be from $15.00 to $20.co 
per week. Transient rates, $3.00 per day. 

ilLSF“For those spending the whole sea¬ 
son special prices will be made. 

Easy of access from Boston and Portland 
by either Maine Central or Grand Trunk 
Railroads to Auburn. The Auburn Horse 
Cars connect with each train, taking passen¬ 
gers to the boat landing, where they can take 
our new Steamer Lewiston, which will take 
them across the lake, landing at the hotel, or 
carriages can be furnished at short notice. A 
competent man will be found at the Auburn 
depot to take charge of baggage and give full 
directions. A large stable is connected with 


the hotel, where gentlemen’s teams will be 
well cared for. 

AUBURN MINERAL SPRING WATER. 

Auburn Mineral Spring Water is pure 88 
9-10 Oxygen, 11 1-10 Hydrogen, by weight. 
It has stood the test of two years’ time under 
the microscope without precipitation. It has 
dissolved to pulp in six days calculi suffic¬ 
iently large to take a person’s life. Auburn 
Mineral Spring Water will dissolve impurities 
and remove them from the system. It has 
become one of the great medicinal remedies of 
the age. 

ONE OF THE MANY TESTIMONIALS. 

What Dr. Willard Parker of New "York 
City says of Auburn Mineral Spring Water : 

Upon the purity of water depends its solv¬ 
ent power. Auburn Mineral Spring Water 
is of crystal purity and clearness. I recom¬ 
mend its use to dissolve and absorb calculus 
and all impurities of the liquid channels. 

Dr. Willard Parker. 

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS. 

State Assayer’s Office and Laboratory, ) 

4 State St., Boston, Mass., June 10, 1879. j 

Auburn Mineral Spring Co.: Gents-.— I have 
analyzed a sample of water marked “ Lake Auburn 
Mineral Spring,” received from you, with the fol¬ 
lowing results : 

One United States Gallon—231 cubic inches—con¬ 


tains 

Sulphate of Potash. 0.183 

Chloride of Sodium. 0.257 

Bicarbonate of Soda. 1.200 

Bicarbonate of Lime. 0.437 

Bicarbonate of Magnesia. 0.296 

Oxide of Iron and Alumnia.traces 

Silica Acid in Solution. 1.411 

Lithia in solution. 

Total . 3.784 


It is naturally aerated or charged with carbonic 
acid, oxygen, and nitrogen gases. It is alkaline, 
odorless, tasteless, colorless, sparkling, and free 
iromany appreciable organic matter. This is an 
uncommonly pure spring water. 

Respectfully, S. Dana Hayes, 

State Assayer and Chemist, Mass. 


Boston Office, No. 156 Devonshire St., W. W. CURTIS, Manager. 



























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H. A. MUNROE’S 

pruit, Confectionery 

AND 

Ice (Yearn parlors 

TRAVELLERS coming by the 

S. D. LEAVITT 

FIRE + MARINE + LIFE 

ACCIDENT 

• • AND • • 

PLATE GLASS 

lMffiHCE nGEHCT 

INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP 

NOTARY PUBLIC. 

CO. SHOULD NOT FAIL TO 

PENSION NOTARY. 

CALL AT THE 

Leading Fruit Store in the Country. 

BRIDGEWATER, NOVA SCOTIA. 

Ticket Agent for ' nte '" atio " al st ‘ am :, 

CJ ship Companu. and all 

Railroads in United States and Canada, and 
Inman Line of Ocean Steamers. 

Agency for United States Express Co. 

P. S. —FINE HAVANA CIGARS A 

SPECIALTY. 

No. 1 Leavitt block, 

EASTPORT, ME. 

E. E. SHEAD & CO., 
IDrucjotets, 

DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES AND CHEMICALS 

BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 

*All the Leading Periodicals. 

Fine Toilet and Fancy Goods. 


EASTPORT, MAINE. 



CENTRAL STREET, SUMMERSIDE, p. E. ISLAND, - J. B. RUSS, PROP’R. 


This hotel is pleasantly and conveniently situated. It is the most central hotel in the 
town, and is within a short distance of the post-office. It has recently been refitted, and 
is in every way a first-class hotel. 

Free coaches will meet all trains and steamers. The patrons of this hotel may rely on 
good table, careful attendance, and moderate charges. 

FIRST-CLASS SAMPLE ROOMS. 

LIVERY STABLE IN CONNECTION. 


House connected “ by telephone” with all parts of the Island. 























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“Necessary to Make a Family Happy.” 

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A Comfortably-Heated House ! 

HOW HEATED? ■ • • • 

Hot Water Circulation ! 


WHAT HEATER? 
WHAT RADIATOR? 








IS THE ORIGINAL AND BEST. 



GURNEY HEATER. “GURNEY RADIATOR,” 

Send, for “ HowBest to Heat Our Homes," Showing lady operating value "by a single turn of the 

and Testimonial Companion, wrist and without stooping." 


Wm. J. Caine, Esq., Sup’t of Albany Land Improvement and Building Co., Albany, N. Y., says : 

“I feel it my duty, after using your Gurney Heater two years, to let you know what I think of it. It 
combines all the good qualities ‘ necessary to make a family happy.’ It consumes very little fuel for a 
heat so great. Simple in its management, a child fifteen years old can run it. Mine has not cost me a cent 
for repairs since fire was started in it, November, 1888. It gives me pleasure to show your system to my 
friends.” 

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GURNEY HOT WATER HEATER CO. 

163 FRANKLIN STREET, 


NEW YORK OFFICE 

88 JOHN STREET. 


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